Frontier Stories, June 1941

# Frontier Magazine (Summer 1941, Volume 14, No. 11)

This issue of Frontier features stories of the American frontier and the fur trade in the Pacific Northwest. The lead novel, "Outrider of Empire" by Dee Linford, follows Kip McKenzie, a blond American laborer at Hudson's Bay Company's Fort Provence. After completing five years of service, McKenzie attempts to leave but is trapped by company debt—having overdraw at the commissary, he cannot be discharged under company policy. When he protests the exploitative wage system and clashes with the bourgeois trader (known as "the Fox"), he is brutally beaten by Jules Charbonneau, the partisan or field commander (called "the Bear"), establishing high stakes for the narrative ahead.

The issue also includes two novelets: Owen Finbar's "North of the Law," featuring a gunman battling a gold-grabbing syndicate, and Fred L. Nebel's "Hudson Bay Chechako." Additional short stories include Jack Sterrett's "Redskin Stampede," pieces on historical figures like "The Benders—Kansas Killers," and "Wells-Fargo Messenger" by Harry F. Olmsted. Published by Fiction House at 20 cents per copy.