The Illustrated Blue Book Magazine, July 1928

This July 1928 issue of *The Blue Book Magazine* contains two serials and eight short stories. The lead serial, "The Forest Legion" by Arthur H. Carhart, chronicles Forest Service conflicts in contemporary Colorado; Carhart himself served as a ranger. The second serial, "Spears in the Sun" by James Edwin Baum, concludes with a climactic episode in an adventure narrative set in Abyssinia. Featured short stories include Beatrice Grimshaw's "Blue Jim Takes a Hand," set in Noumea and drawing on her South Seas expertise; George Piddington's "A Fighter in the Saddle," combining horse-racing and prize-fighting; and tales of adventure and intrigue like Lemuel De Bra's "Four Diamonds" (Chinatown underworld), Culpeper Zandtt's "A Modern Pirate" (Orient), and Warren H. Miller's "The Riff Salient" (Foreign Legion in the Sahara). Additional stories include Clarence Herbert New's diplomatic tale and Frederick Griffin's "Swamp Sanctuary" featuring two dogs and a muskrat trapper. Five brief real-experience narratives conclude the issue.