 His story "Get a Wild Horse Hunter", an example of his pulp fiction writing, appeared in the June 1952 edition of the magazine "Western Novels and Short Stories".In the mid-1950s Lutz made the transition to full-length novels, and until his death in June 1982, published numerous stories about the American West.In 1962, Lutz won the Western Writers of America Golden Spur Award for his novel, "The Honyocker".