Argosy, Volume XXIII — Index Page, 1897

# Museum Catalog Description

This volume contains complete novels, serial stories, short stories, and poems spanning adventure, crime, mystery, and romance genres. Complete novels include William Murray Graydon's Captives of the Czar and The Crime of Maximy Petrov, and Lieutenant John Lloyd's An Army Bride. Serial fiction includes Living It Down by Talbot Baines Reed (running across multiple installments), The Major's Plot by Graydon, In Gallant Service by Richard Wolff, and Making a Man of Himself by Oliver Optic. Short stories feature titles like The Avenging Tiger, Circus Vengeance, and A Little Coward, with authors including Frank W. Calkins and Thomas Winthrop Hall. The featured complete story in the July 1897 issue is A Campaign of Strategy, depicting a solitary horseman named R. Field Atwood crossing Arizona's desert toward a neighboring ranch, establishing the narrative premise involving Apache encounters and the protagonist's passion for photography.