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About this issue

This issue of Adventure magazine, published three times monthly by The Ridgway Company, contains a mix of complete works and serialized fiction. The featured complete novel is "Swain's Chase" by Arthur D. Howden Smith, depicting Viking-farers in pursuit of Olvir Rosta. Short stories include William Byron Mowery's "As Gentlemen Should" (set in Labrador), Raymond W. Thorp's "The Judgment Tree of Daniel Boone," Albert Richard Wetjen's "Exactly" (Cape Town-bound), and Leonard H. Nason's novelette "A Morning Call" (World War setting with a surprise attack). Chester T. Crowell contributes "Uncle Dudley Kind O' Scouts Round," featuring Texas tricks in New York. John I. Cochrane continues his four-part serial "Necklaces and Dan Wheeler" involving war on the "Spark Gang" in New York. Additional stories cover hillbillies, sea narratives, and lumber camps. The issue also features verse and maintains the magazine's regular "Ask Adventure" information service and reader forum "The Camp-Fire."