Adventure Magazine Cover, June 15, 1928

About this issue

This issue contains five stories and a novelette. "Lifelines" by Karl W. Detzer opens the issue as a novelette of Great Lakes maritime adventure, focusing on conflict between young Coast Guard officer Dave Lee and his stubborn, old-fashioned father King John Lee, a timber mill owner at Pine Haven. The narrative establishes tension between Dave's modernizing impulses and his father's resistance to progress, culminating in a rescue from the lake during a storm and conflict over whether the unseaworthy schooner Peacock should sail in dangerous conditions. Additional stories include "Pioneer Railroading" by Arthur Woodward, "Wolf Medicine" by Hugh Pendexter (Upper Missouri), "The Gold Test" by Dex Volney (Alaska), "Four-Times-He" by R. V. Gery (Java Seas), and a three-part novel conclusion "In The Year 2000" by Arthur O. Friel (Upper Amazon jungles). The issue also contains lighter fare including "What's The Use?" by Harry G. Huse, a western humorous story, and "Light of The Palace" by Harold Lamb, an Asian novelette.