Walt Coburn was a famous western author in the pulps. He started his career as a writer when his lifetime goal of being a cowboy was ended after an accident. With a little encouragement from author 
Robert J. Horton, who had heard Coburn's stories earlier and realized his talent for storytelling, Coburn parlayed his start with a vignette in the July 8, 1922 issue of 
Argosy into  a thirty year, multi-million word career in the pulps.
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| Author Walt Coburn riding a horse near his house in Tucson, Arizona |