author
Bud La Mar
Western tales of rodeo grit, showmanship, and cowboy rivalry are at the heart of this little-known pulp-era writer’s work. The surviving record is slim, but the stories linked to this name still carry the fast pace and rough-edged charm of 1920s magazine fiction.
2 Audiobooks
The bar act
by Bud La Mar
Buckin' the air
by Bud La Mar
About the author
Bud La Mar appears to be a largely obscure author whose work survives mainly through reprints and public-domain archives rather than modern biographical sources. Reliable information about the person behind the name is very limited, so much of a full life story cannot be confirmed.
What can be confirmed is that La Mar wrote Western fiction centered on rodeo life and cowboy competition. The Bar Act was originally published in 1928 in Short Stories magazine, and other works by La Mar are listed in public-domain and ebook catalogs, suggesting a small body of pulp-Western writing that has continued to circulate among readers of classic frontier fiction.
Because so little verified personal information is available, Bud La Mar is best remembered through the stories themselves: brisk, entertaining pieces that capture the dust, danger, and spectacle of the early Western magazine tradition.