Western Story Magazine

[3] Western Story Magazine began when Street & Smith executive Henry Ralston decided to convert one of the company's nickel weeklies, New Buffalo Bill Weekly, into a pulp.

The magazine attracted a number of famous Western authors, including Charles Alden Seltzer, H. Bedford-Jones, Stewart Edward White, W. Ryerson Johnson and William MacLeod Raine.

[5] Western Story Magazine was also prominent in publishing material by women writers, including B. M. Bower and Cherry Wilson.

[2] In the 1930s, the publication's roster of authors expanded to include Walt Coburn, William Colt MacDonald and W. C. Tuttle,[2] while noted pulp illustrator Walter M. Baumhofer contributed several covers.

[6] In the late 1930s, Blackwell was succeeded as editor by John Burr, who edited the magazine until it ceased publication in 1949.