Interesting question. I don't know what The First Zombie Western was, but I'd be willing to bet that the specific concept emerged in the later pulps, when genres were being merged and you had cowboy airmen and blind vigilante flyers and the like.
But it's also quite possible that somewhere in the vast corpus of dime novels featuring cowboys there's a zombie story or two. Some of those stories got surprisingly Gothic and horrorific.
Very interesting question, though. I could get a good article out of that, if I had the resources to investigate it thoroughly.
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Date: 2003-06-04 07:55 am (UTC)But it's also quite possible that somewhere in the vast corpus of dime novels featuring cowboys there's a zombie story or two. Some of those stories got surprisingly Gothic and horrorific.
Very interesting question, though. I could get a good article out of that, if I had the resources to investigate it thoroughly.