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The Rambler [1848]

Total Issues: 180

Serialised several novels, e.g. Cecilia Caddell's "Seymour's Curse".

Issues & Index Sources

1-Jan-1848 – May-1862:

The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals Volume 2

Publishers

James Burn (later Burns & Lambert) to May-1862, then Williams & Norgate

Editors

  1848 – 1852: John Moore Capes
  1852 – Sep-1854: James Spencer Northcote
  Oct-1854 – Feb-1859: Richard Simpson
  Mar-1859 – Jul-1859: John H. Newman
  Aug-1859 – ?: Sir John Acton

Frequency

  1-Jan-1848 – 26-Aug-1848: weekly
  Sep-1848 – Feb-1859: monthly
  Mar-1859 – ?: bi-monthly

Sources

BritLit3

The Rambler [2004]

A magazine of good writing and good conversation featuring interviews as well as selections of fiction, poetry, essays, original drawings, and photography.

Originally called The Village Rambler.

Issues & Index Sources: Jan/Feb-2004 – present:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   Rambler Publications, LLC, PO Box 5070, Chapel Hill, NC 27514-5001
Website:   www.ramblermagazine.com
Editors:   Elizabeth Oliver
Formats:   quarto
Prices:   $4.95
Pagecounts:   64pp
Frequency:   bimonthly

Rampike

"An important outlet for Canadian poetry and fiction".

Issues & Index Sources: 1979 – present

Publishers:   81 Thornloe Crescent, Sault Ste. Marie, ON, P6A 4J4
Editors:   Karl E. Jirgens
Formats:   chapbook

Ranch Love Stories

Issues & Index Sources: Mar-1950 – ?:

Fictionmags Website

(Missing: any after Mar-1950)

Publishers:   Interstate
Formats:   standard pulp
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinWest

Ranch Romances

Total Issues: 88

The "last of the pulps," it continued throughout the 1960s and into the early 1970s as a quasi-pulp, although in 1967 the magazine went entirely reprint.

Issues & Index Sources

Dec-1924 – Nov-1968:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Feb-1969 – Nov-1971, as Ranch Romances & Adventures:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Publishers

  Clayton Magazines till 8-Jan-1933; Warner
  ? – Feb-1955: Best Books Inc
  Mar-1955 – ?: Literary Enterprises Inc
  in 1970: Popular Library

Editors

  Dec-1924 – 20-Nov-1953: Fanny Ellsworth
  4-Dec-1953 – 27-Dec-1957: Helen Tono (nee Helen Davidge)
  17-Jan-1958 – 1968: Jim Hendryx, Jr.
  Feb-1970 – Nov-1971: Sharon Moore

Formats

standard pulp

Frequency

  Dec-1924 – ?: monthly
  ? – 17-Jan-1958: fortnightly
  Jun-1958 – Jan-1959: irregular
  May-1959 – 1971: quarterly

Sources

AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinWest



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Ranch Romances (Canada)

Canadian reprint edition of Ranch Romances.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1940s:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Publishers: America News Company
Formats: standard pulp

Ranch Romances (UK)

Total Issues: 8+5=13

British reprint edition of Ranch Romances.

Issues & Index Sources

? – Feb-1954:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Sep-1956 – Jan-1957:

Fictionmags Website

#merges with Thrilling Western (UK)

Publishers

Atlas Publishing & Distributing

Formats

standard pulp

Random Realities

Total Issues: 8

Issues & Index Sources: #1, 1992 – #8, 1995:

Miller/Contento

Publishers: Jeff Dennis, Norcross, GA.

Rangeland Love Stories [1950]

Total Issues: 24

In some ways a revival of Rangeland Love Stories after it separated from Rangeland Romances.

Issues & Index Sources: Aug-1950 – Sep-1954:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Publishers:   Popular Publications
Formats:   standard pulp
Frequency:   bi-monthly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide



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Rangeland Love Stories [1933]

Rangeland Love Stories [1936]

Rangeland Love Story Magazine

see under Rangeland Stories

Rangeland Romances

Total Issues: 219

After Aug-1955 absorbed by Dime Western Magazine.

Issues & Index Sources

Jun-1935 – Jul-1936:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

Aug-1936 – May-1937, as Rangeland Love Stories

Jun-1937 – May-1955, as Rangeland Romances:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issues only)

Aug-1955 – Dec-1955, as Western Story Round Up:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

Publishers

New Publications (Popular Publications)

Formats

standard pulp

Prices

10c (rising to 15c in 1940s)

Frequency

mostly bi-monthly

Sources

AHGTTP, UltGuide



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Rangeland Romances (Canada)

Canadian reprint edition of Rangeland Romances.

Issues & Index Sources: in 1940s

Publishers: Popular Publications Canada
Formats: pulp

Rangeland Romances (UK)

British reprint edition of Rangeland Romances.

Issues & Index Sources: late 1940s

Publishers: Thorpe & Porter
Formats: pulp

Rangeland Stories

Total Issues: 63

Issues & Index Sources

Nov-1928 – Oct-1929

Nov-1929 – Dec-1932, as Rangeland Love Story Magazine

Jan-1933 – Jul-1934, as Rangeland Love Stories:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

Publishers

  Nov-1928 – May-1931: Climax Publishing [Clayton]
  Jun-1931 – May-1933: Clayton Magazines
  Nov-1933 – Jul-1934: A.M. Clayton

Formats

  Nov-1928 – Dec-1932: standard pulp
  Jan-1933 – May-1933: bedsheet
  Nov-1933 – Jul-1934: standard pulp

Frequency

mostly monthly

Sources

AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinWest

Rangeland Sweethearts

Total Issues: 4

Issues & Index Sources: Oct-1940 – Apr-1941:

Fictionmags Website

(sample issue only)

Publishers:   Popular Publications
Formats:   standard pulp
Frequency:   bimonthly
Sources:   AHGTTP, UltGuide, DinWest

The Ranger [1931]

Total Issues: 130

Issues & Index Sources

14-Feb-1931 – 5-Aug-1933

#becomes The Ranger (New Series)

Publishers

Amalgamated Press

Editors

  Hedley O'Mant
  G. Cecil Graveley [Assistant Editor]
  Clifford Gates [Assistant Editor]

Prices

Pagecounts

28pp

Frequency

weekly

The Ranger (New Series)

Total Issues: 112

Contains "original adventure stories (5000 words), series or serials (65,000 words) to appeal to boys age 9-14."

Incorporates: Pioneer from 4-Aug-1934

Issues & Index Sources

12-Aug-1933 – 28-Sep-1935

#becomes Pilot

Publishers

Amalgamated Press

Formats

(larger than previous series)

Prices

Pagecounts

24pp

Frequency

weekly