Fighting Fred of Frisco

This 1892 pulp magazine installment of "Fighting Fred of Frisco" by T. C. Harbaugh follows three seventeen-year-old chums—Fred Nichols, Max Martin, and Ned Knight—abandoned at a remote cabin in the Cascade Mountains near the Columbia River. Their three guides, including the half-breed Captain Snake, deserted them mid-journey to Fort Okinakane in Washington Territory, taking the horses and supplies. The boys discover they possess rifles, ammunition, cooking utensils, traps, and tools. When a grizzly bear steals their freshly caught salmon supper, the boys pursue it into their cabin. They spend hours watching the bear occupy their shelter, eventually attempting to provoke it into the open for a shot. The narrative emphasizes frontier adventure, Yankee determination overcoming hardship, and suspenseful encounters with wilderness dangers.