The Blue Book Magazine, March 1926

Blue Book Magazine, March 1926 This issue features two novellas and thirteen short stories alongside five "real experience" narratives. The lead novella, "Through the Red Dusk" by Arthur Hawthorne Carhart, concerns Forest Service personnel caught between feuding ranchers and a forest fire in Pagosa National Forest. George L. Knapp's "Unforeseen!" examines crime and its unanticipated consequences. Among the short fiction are tales of seafaring ("The Stowaway" by John Mersereau), animal adventure ("Blue Moonlight" by Hal Borland featuring a pronghorn), South Seas treasure-hunting ("The Golden Crowns" by Beatrice Grimshaw), and various westerns and comedies. Warren Hastings Miller contributes "Roberta Kills a Seledang," depicting an American woman's adventure in a Malayan jungle. Clarence Herbert New offers "Politics in Mountsburg" featuring the engineer Grigsby. William T. Tilden II, the tennis champion, provides "Love Raises the Deuce." Real-experience contributions include accounts of ice-selling to Eskimos, jaguar hunting in Central America, and bootlegging mysteries.