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Thomas Barclay Thomson
1887–1978
A little-known pulp-fiction writer, Thomas Barclay Thomson brought frontier danger, revenge, and suspense to the pages of Argosy All-Story Weekly. His stories offer a vivid glimpse into the fast-moving world of early twentieth-century popular fiction.
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Mountain killers
by Thomas Barclay Thomson
About the author
Thomas Barclay Thomson (1887–1978) wrote short stories for American pulp magazines, including The Zero Hour (1929), Mountain Killers (1929), and A Fool for Luck (1930). His fiction often centered on danger, hard choices, revenge, and life on the frontier.
His work also reached school readers: excerpts from A Fight He Could Not Win and Brace Yourself appeared in the 1956 anthology Good Times Through Literature. Later accounts describe Thomson as a retired postmaster and fellow writer; in 1965, he married writer Isabel Stewart Way, having previously been married to co-author Ruby LaVerte Thomson.