The Popular Magazine

# The Return of the Range Rider

The Popular Magazine, November 20, 1924 features a complete novel by William MacLeod Raine about Bob McCourt, a man released from prison after serving years for murder. McCourt returns to Arizona intent on revenge against the three men he blames for his conviction. Upon arrival, he stumbles upon a highway robbery in progress: two masked men are accosting a young woman in a roadster, demanding her handbag and papers. The narrative emphasizes McCourt's transformation from a carefree youth into a cold, disciplined man hardened by incarceration. The issue also includes short stories by Ralph D. Paine ("The Twenty-Five-Dollar Slave," concerning naval involvement in slave trafficking) and others, plus a four-part serial by Frank H. Spearman titled "Selwood of Sleepy Cat," featuring early Western frontier narrative.