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About this issue

This October 1927 issue of Adventure (Vol. 64, No. 2) features a diverse range of adventure and outdoor fiction. The featured novelette "The Dark Regiment" by Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson concerns Black cavalry soldiers in the Philippines, opening with a rifle-training sequence. Bruce Johns contributes "The Spring Law," a story about an Indian sheriff confronting a mob. J.D. Newsom's "Victory" follows foreign patriots in the New Hebrides; W.C. Tuttle provides "Rodeo"; Roy Snider offers "Cockney Joe, R.N.," about a Great Lakes derelict vessel. The issue includes Part III of Alan LeMay's five-part serial "Old Father of Waters," set during Mississippi steamboat days. Shorter pieces include Gordon MacCreagh's expedition notes from Abyssinia, Harry Franck's "The Dignity of Prayer," and F.R. Buckley's "Machiavelli Peg-Leg," a humorous western. Sidney Herschel Small concludes with "The Thunder God," a complete novelette featuring white men in Japan. The magazine also includes regular columns: "The Camp-Fire," reader correspondence, and "Ask Adventure."