Ranch Romances is known far and wide as the most famous of the Western romance pulps. But it was a lot more than that: it was the pulp magazine managed by the famous Fanny Ellsworth; it was, next to Love Story, one of the most popular romance pulps and one of the most popular Western pulps of all time as well. Its stories are standard romance and Western fare, written mainly by moderately successful pulp writers with no stories that really stood out as exceptional. But a few famous writers bloodied their writing knuckles writing for Ms. Ellsworth. Ranch Romances was an enormous success and it eventually became the last pulp standing, staying in circulation until 1971.
