Western Story Magazine

Western Story Magazine, November 25, 1922 This issue of the weekly Western Story Magazine contains eight stories across 128 pages. The lead feature is "Crescent Moon," a complete novel by Robert Adger Brown, beginning a narrative centered on Captain Nora Vane of the Crescent Moon Ranch. The story opens with Nora encountering Joel Rand, owner of the adjacent Snake Bar Ranch, on the plains. Their tense conversation touches on Rand's accusations that Crescent Moon employees are cutting his fences, Nora's concern about his neglected wife Isabella, and Rand's suspicions about one of Nora's newer hired hands. The exchange reveals underlying hostility between the ranches and hints at darker secrets in Rand's past. Two serials continue: "Wild Freedom" by George Osden Baxter (part three of six) and "Into the Unknown" by Charles Reed Sanderson (part five of six). Five additional short stories complete the issue alongside miscellaneous articles on regional topics and natural history.