I am writing this without being able to pull snippets but
want to get it off before I head to work.
Mr. T you are right T.S. Stribling is more of a mountain or
"hills" writer. On his gravestone in Clifton, Tennessee is
the great line: "Through this dust these hills once spoke."
Much of his pulp fiction is interesting in a variety of ways.
He pioneered the "Off-Trail" category for Adventure Magazine
that so labeled much of his work for them. He had a quirky
sense of humor. A well-traveled man for the time he once
wrote a novel where he put a young go-getter of the Babbitt
type into the middle of a South American revolution and the
result I found humorous although it was published as a
straight adventure.
Seven Anderton is turning into a very interesting character
as witness the Argosy autobiography Todd migrated to our
list. I've also learned that apparently before he was
published as a writer Blue Book published a story
entitled
"Seven Anderton" by Laban Reynolds. Reynolds says he had the
story from Anderton but that's such an old plot device that
who would have believed it. In December 1928 Anderton had his
first Blue Book story. According to Richard Bleiler this may
have been written from prison where Anderton was serving a
sentence for an specified crime.
So for a guy I suspected was a house name old Seven had quite
an adventurous life and was still publishing stories in the
Lowndes magazines nearly three decades after that first
story.
Richard Moore
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