Argosy, Volume XXIII — Index Page, 1897

Museum Catalog Description This volume contains complete novels, serial stories, short stories, and poems spanning adventure, crime, mystery, and romance genres. Complete novels include William Murray Graydon's *Captives of the Czar* and *The Crime of Maximy Petrov*, and Lieutenant John Lloyd's *An Army Bride*. Serial fiction includes *Living It Down* by Talbot Baines Reed (running across multiple installments), *The Major's Plot* by Graydon, *In Gallant Service* by Richard Wolff, and *Making a Man of Himself* by Oliver Optic. Short stories feature titles like *The Avenging Tiger*, *Circus Vengeance*, and *A Little Coward*, with authors including Frank W. Calkins and Thomas Winthrop Hall. The featured complete story in the July 1897 issue is *A Campaign of Strategy*, depicting a solitary horseman named R. Field Atwood crossing Arizona's desert toward a neighboring ranch, establishing the narrative premise involving Apache encounters and the protagonist's passion for photography.