Adventure Magazine, April 1917

# Adventure Magazine, April 1917

This pulp issue features diverse adventure and action stories. The lead serial "Fire Mountain" (Norman Springer) concludes a two-part tale of maritime intrigue involving a young messenger, a imprisoned girl in men's clothing, and competing parties seeking a coded treasure map. The map, discovered in a whaleman's log, reveals ambergris worth more than gold hidden on a volcanic island in the Bering Sea by ancient survivors.

"Danny and Number Nine" concerns an engineer and locomotive providing service to a Central American republic. W.C. Tuttle's "Fifty-Fifty with Bonnie" depicts ranch comedy when cowhands bring girls to Hank Padden's spread. Robin Anderson's "Dex Weaver's Conversion" deals with colonial Philippines efforts at civilization. H. Rider Haggard's serial "Finished" (Part IV) depicts Zulu resistance to British colonial authority. "Conchita of the Laughing Eyes" (Hays Bell) is set during the 1846 Mexican-American War. "The Soul of a Regiment" by Talbot Mundy is highlighted as the magazine's most-praised story, reprinted after five years.