Top Western Fiction Annual Volume 1 Number 3 from 1952. Howard’s TEXAS JOHN ALDEN was printed. It was reprinted from Hopalong Cassidy’s Western Magazine published in 1950 which again was a reprint from The Masked Rider Western magazine from May 1944. Originally a Buckner J. Grimes story titled RING-TAILED TORNADO. Published under the name of Patrick Ervin.

Contents

•   6 • Under Fire • (copyright 1936 – originally in April 1936 Popular Western) • short story by S. Omar Barker
•  10 • Riders of the Shadows • (copyright 1939 – originally in Dec. 1939 Thrilling Ranch Stories) • story by Allan R. Bosworth
•  13 • The Best of the West • editorial 
•  49 • Billy Dixon’s Great Shot • by Norman B. Wiltsey
•  50 • Green Stones of Death • (copyright 1941 – Originally in August 1941 Thrilling Adventures) • short story by Gunnison Steele
•  58 • San Francisco Storekeeper • feature by Ben Frank
•  59 • Spurs for a Tenderfoot • (copyright 1947 – originally in June 1947 Thrilling Western) • short story by Ben Frank
•  67 • Lunch with Clay Allison • feature by William Carter
•  68 • Too Tough to Handle • (copyright 1939 – originally in March 1939 Thrilling Western) • story by Syl MacDowell
• 104 • Manhunter • (copyright 1937 – originally in Jan. 1939 Popular Western) • short story by Barry Storm
• 115 • Stage Driver’s Trust • (copyright 1944 – originally in Feb. 1945 Range Riders Western) • short story by Mel Pitzer
• 119 • Killer • (copyright 1943 – originally in July 1943 West) • short story by Joe Archibald
• 129 •  “Texas John Alden” • (copyright 1944, Better Publications, Inc. Originally in May 1944 Masked Rider Western) • by Patrick Ervin (Robert E. Howard)
• 140 • V is for Vengeance • (copyright 1942, Warner Publications, Inc. Originally from First Sept. 1942 Ranch Romances) • story by Jack Byrne

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Editor: Morris Ogden Jones. Published and copyright 1951, by BEST BOOKS, INC. Price 25c.