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About this issue

This December 31, 1926 issue of Adventure magazine (Vol. LXI, No. 1) features fiction across multiple genres and settings. W.C. Tuttle's complete novel "Two Fares East" opens with a ranch wedding at Uncle Hozie Wheeler's Flying H outfit in cattle country, introducing characters including the bride Peggy, groom Joe, and the scattered ranch hands slipping away from the ceremony. Hugh Pendexter's serial "The Fighting Years" begins its first installment as a romance of American frontier pioneers. Arthur D. Howden Smith contributes the complete novelette "The Last Legion," concerning old loyalties and a deathless sword. Sydney Herschel Small's "The Temple of the Snake" is set in Japan. Gordon Young's serial "Treasure" concludes its story of recompense in the South Seas. Short stories include Lewis J. Rendbl's "The Place of Birds" (South American jungle), Helen von Kolnitz Hyer's "Nassau Bound," and John Webb's "Sea Cure" (hillbillies at sea). Additional content includes Sam C. Dunham's article on Riley Grannan's last adventure and various department columns.