The Popular Magazine, Vol. 37, No. 6

This issue of The Popular Magazine (September 7, 1915) contains fiction centered on adventure and labor. "The Salmon Run" by William Slavens McNutt is a complete novel set on Alaska's Aleutian Islands, depicting the salmon-canning industry and the hazardous work of netting millions of phosphorescent salmon during spawning season; human passions of love, hate, and greed permeate the narrative. B. M. Bower's "The Lazy A," serialized novel part two, features a real cowgirl heroine in the Western moving-picture field. Short stories include "Pigeon Pie for Breakfast" by A. A. Chapin (a duel of wits between a German colonel and French savant), "Call It Luck!" by Howard Fielding (applying baseball "breaks" to human problems), "The Heel of Achilles" by Alan Sullivan (a quest for the ruby eye of a Buddha statue), and "The Man from the Bitter Roots" by Caroline Lockhart. Additional content includes editorial pieces on South American development, business circuits, and wheat expansion, plus sports and logging-camp stories.