The Wide World, May 1920

This May 1920 issue of *The Wide World Magazine* presents fiction emphasizing adventure and travel. The featured serial "Lucky Pete," illustrated by Warwick Reynolds and credited to Stuart Cumberland, centers on a dog and his master Allan Macdonald during the Klondyke gold rush. The narrator, a Cambridge acquaintance of Macdonald's, recounts how the devoted dog served as Macdonald's sole companion and "mascot" in the remote northern goldfields. The story establishes a secondary character, "Hell Fire Ned," a volatile California mine operator whom the narrator previously encountered; their meeting ended with Ned firing shots at the narrator's departing stagecoach. The narrative shifts to Spokane, British Columbia, where the narrator attends a high-stakes poker game among mining magnates, a senator, judge, and businessman. The excerpt suggests convergence of these plot threads involving the goldfields, the dog, and Hell Fire Ned.