Knife, Bullet and Noose. Short fiction by Robert E. Howard featuring The Sonora Kid. The story was received by the Kline Agency on June 7, 1933, and later submitted to Street & Smith’s Cowboy Stories, edited by Orlin F. Tremaine, on August 18, where it faced rejection on August 25. V. I. Cooper of the Kline Agency began marketing it on September 7, 1933. By February 3, 1934, it reached Fiction House and Wild West Weekly, only to be returned on April 20. The final typescript, bearing a Kline Agency stamp on the upper corner of its title page, survives alongside two slightly shorter drafts with minor variances.