Here's a nice article on the Whispering Sands series:
http://www.gwthomas.org/gardener.htm
--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, ejgorman99@... wrote:
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> In a message dated 7/5/09 11:49:48 AM, bengt@... writes:
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> > So I´m thinking about the connection between the two - or the one -
> > genre(s), between american crime novels and the myth of the american
> > western
> > and cowboy myth. Has there been anything written about this? Am I right
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> Hammett once said that the private eye is the cowboy brought to the
> city. In the early days of Black Mask magazine westerns were published alongside
> crime stories. Erle Stanley Gardner wrote a series called Whispering Sands
> (some of his best work) that are westerns set in the desert of the early
> 1920s.
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