Wild West Weekly

Wild West Weekly was a dime novel later turned pulp magazine.[1]

On October 24, 1902 Frank Tousey released his first issue of the 5-cent dime novel Wild West Weekly called "The Prince in the Saddle". Written by Frank, though said to be written by "An Old Scout", it created a story centered around the character Young Wild West, a "bright, handsome boy of eighteen with a wealth of waving chestnut hair hanging down his back".[2] West is an expert horse rider among other things.[3]

The dime novel series ran from 1902 to 1928. [4] In 1927, the novel was acquired by Street & Smith and continued to run as a pulp magazine from 1931 to 1943.[5] In 1943 the magazine went through a name change, removing the word weekly from its title and was discontinued by the company later that year. Wild West ran for a total of 822 issues before ceasing publication.

Regular writers included editor Tousey, Cornelius Shea, J. Allan Dunn, Wayne D. Overholser, Walker A. Tompkins, and Allan Vaughan Elston.[6] Wild West Weekly had covers drawn by several artists who worked for Street & Smith, including Walter M. Baumhofer and Norman Saunders.[6]

The magazine was featured in an exhibition about Native American portrayals by the University of California Bancroft Library.[7][8]