The Illustrated Blue Book Magazine, July 1926

# The Blue Book Magazine, July 1926

This issue contains a featured western novel, The Lost Frontier by C. E. Pladwell, set in a remote Southwestern region where remnants of the old frontier provide adventure. The lead novelette is A Man's a Man by Lemuel De Bra, described as a stirring western adventure by the author of "Men of the Border" and "When Tong Tricks Tong."

The twelve short stories span multiple genres. Jonathan Brooks contributes "Freeze-out," about a trotting horse forced to race on ice. J.F.M. Day offers "Springs of Thirst," concerning a gunman's desert flight. H. Bedford-Jones provides "The Cibourne Trail," featuring detectives mixing with French criminals. Other tales include Bigelow Neal's "The Coyote," tracking a wilderness predator, and Stephen Hopkins Orcutt's "Nerve," involving a steamship beset by tidal waves and cholera. The issue also includes five stories of "remarkable real experience," including accounts of telegraph operators, Indian captivity, and railway adventures.