Adventure Magazine Cover, September 3, 1918

This issue of Adventure magazine (September 1916) contains a diverse collection of stories and a serialized narrative. The lead story is William Patterson White's complete novel "High Pockets," featuring a lanky, mysterious drifter who arrives in Farewell and becomes entangled in a murder investigation involving the brutal death of a man named Rufe Thompson. Roy P. Churchill's "The Frayed Strand" follows a sailor named Clay McCune who deserts ship in Port Antonio. Louise Rice's "Skirts and Brats" centers on "Red Jumbo," who exploits women and children for his purposes. Gordon Young's "The Greaser" concerns Jose Juarez, a Mexican gambler, in a border-town adventure. The issue includes Part II of Kathrene and Robert Praberton's "Before Marquette," a three-part historical story set among the Illinios. E.S. Gladwell's "The Seeds of Wrath" depicts a missionary in the South Seas pushed to violence. W.C. Tuttle's "Making Good for Muley" is a lighter story about a broke cowboy. Historical and maritime adventures round out the contents.