Adventure Magazine Cover

Museum Catalog Entry: Adventure Magazine, October 20, 1924 Issue This issue of *Adventure* contains seven stories across multiple genres and geographic settings. W. C. Tuttle contributes "The Dead-Line," a complete Western novel featuring "Hashknife" Hartley and cattle-sheep conflict. John Dorman's "Seven Who Went But Once" is set in Louisiana and concerns a gambler's dare. Charles Victor Fischer offers "Salt on a Bird's Tail," a complete Pacific-based novelette about a gunner's engagement. Leo Walmsley's "Dusty," set in Africa, depicts a fighting mongoose and its deadly encounters. Talbot Mundy continues his six-part serial "Om" (Part II), set in India. Eugene Cunningham contributes "The Filibuster Navy" (Nicaragua setting), while Alanson Skinner provides "A Well in the Desert," a New Mexico story about a sheepherder's property. Georges Surdez's "The Mountaineer" depicts a French bowman confronting armored men. Bruce Johns' "The Valley of Remorse," a California novelette, features Hindus pursuing a white man. The issue includes practical reader services and a literary discussion feature.