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Carregando... The Scarlet Riders: Action-Packed Mountie Stories from the Fabulous Pulpsde Don Hutchison (Editor)
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. This is a collection of short stories that appeared in pulp magazines in the 1929's and 1930's. All stories in this volume have members of the Northwest Mounted police, the original name of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as their heroes. Except for the last story by Frederick Nebel, these narratives are too fantastic to be even close to reality. Some of the authors gave their heroes what seemed to be supernatural powers to overcome their adversaries. Lester Dent`s hero, the Silver Corporal, could bury himself in a snow drift, have the villains fill the the drift full of led and emerge further down the drift uninjured and undetected, Some of these Mounted officers seemed impervious to sub temperatures as illustrated by their ability to take their mitts off at 50 degrees below and fire guns and make meals plus surviving dips in frozen lakes without the aid of a companion to prevent them from freezing solid. I remember reading my Dad`s Argosy and other pulps, but I remember stronger story lines. Maybe time has fogged my memory and these poorly written examples were the norm but I prefer to believe not. ( ) sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
No country has had as many stories written about its national police force as Canada. The sterling image of the scarlet-coated Mountie was almost as familiar a symbol as the ubiquitous cowboy in American fiction. And nowhere was he more popular than in the dynamic pulp fiction magazines. During the '20s, '30s, and '40s, tales featuring rugged Mounties maintaining the law of the untamed North were so popular that a number of authors built careers specializing in their exploits. This is a generous collection of such stories, as flamboyant and red-blooded as the publications in which they first appeared. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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