Golden West Books

BOOKS ON TRAINS & RAILROADS started as an outgrowth of an interest in railroading and writing, and developed into a business. Prior to the creation of BOOKS ON TRAINS & RAILROADS, I wrote Western stories. My father was a Western buff and always had a stack of pulp Westerns by his chair in the den. So my stories were generally located on a railroad theme. Pulp Westerns in the 1940's and 1950's sold for about 15 cents eash. After college I returned home and found myself editor of the Pacific Railway Journal, a quarterly sponsored by three Southern California railroad clubs.