Curio

State Library of New South Wales

Mystery in the Cactus (c. 1947)

Watercolour and gouache

PX*D 68/1/f. 10

Cover artwork.

Timeless Westerns

By Toni Johnson-Woods Pulp- A collector’s book of Australian pulp fiction covers pg 86

“The Western is the most protean genre. It has been adopted and adapted in literature, movies, radio serials and television shows. … The Western’s timelessness accounts for its continued popularity for, while the world changes, the Wild West remains a mythical and unchanging society. … Because westerns are male adventure stories, females are noticeably absent”.