Frontier Stories, April 1939

This issue of Frontier Stories (Summer 1939, Vol. 14, No. 3) contains multiple Western fiction pieces. The featured story is "The Scalping Parson" by Jed Agee, a novel set during the Civil War. Major Paul at Fort Union is alarmed by Confederate advances and threat of Comanche attacks coordinated with the conflict. Scout Tom Armand learns from his Navajo contact Valiente that troublemakers are arming Comanches led by Bold Man to raid settlements. Armand resigns his position to investigate with companion Miguel La Force. The two pursue a mysterious weapons-laden wagon train heading toward the Staked Plains for rendezvous with Indian raiders. The issue also features "Texicans to Saddle!" by J.E. Grinstead, "The Short-Gun Crusader" by William Corcoran, and "Stockade of the Last Hope" by Ed Earl Repp, plus six shorter works including "Riders of Destiny," "John Slaughter—Tombstone's Two-Gun Nemesis," "California Caravan," "Ghost-Town Guns," and "Gold-Rush Rangers" by various authors—all emphasizing frontier action, gunplay, and Indian conflict themes.