Thrilling Western, May 1951 THE BLOOD OF RYAN by Louis L'Amour The dying station hostler wanted to live—just long enough! 2900 Words
Thrilling Western, May 1951 HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW YOUR WEST? A Quiz 300 Words
This edition includes the illustration to to story, the 2 illustrations to the quiz, a gallery of 6 ads from the issue (include on for the RKO movie THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD), the cover to the issue as well as a gallery of 10 Pulp covers from magazines that features stories by Louis L'Amour.
Louis Dearborn L'Amour was an American novelist and short story writer. His books consisted primarily of Western novels, though he called his work "frontier stories". His most widely known Western fiction works include Last of the Breed, Hondo, Shalako, and the Sackett series. L'Amour also wrote historical fiction (The Walking Drum), science fiction (The Haunted Mesa), non-fiction (Frontier), and poetry and short-story collections. Many of his stories were made into films. His books remain popular and most have gone through multiple printings. At the time of his death, almost all of his 105 existing works (89 novels, 14 short-story collections, and two full-length works of nonfiction) were still in print, and he was "one of the world's most popular writers".
The story is a good one and I hate giving such a low rating for such a good author but I paid .99 for 20 complete novels in a megapack from another publisher so just one very short story for the same price is a ripoff even if it was by Louis Lamour.