The Popular Magazine, May 20, 1922

This issue of Popular Magazine (Vol. LXIV, No. 3, May 20, 1903) contains a mix of fiction across several story types. Francis Lynde's complete novel "A Transplanted Tenderfoot" depicts Bertie Wilgus, a desk-bound accountant from Indianapolis, receiving a telegram offering a paymaster position on a Colorado dam-building project. When he considers accepting despite his conventional fiancée Peggy's objections, the novel explores tensions between adventurous impulse and domesticity. The issue also features short stories by Albert Payson Terhune ("The Writer-Upward," set in Moab mountains), Thomas McMorrow ("Out on Bail," involving pigeons and rubies), Dane Coolidge (part two of "The Scalp Lock," a four-part Western), Theodore Solomons, Henry Knibbs, Richard Barry, Austin Hall, Eden Phillpotts (part four of "The Red Redmaynes"), J. Frank Davis, and William Almon Wolff. Ralph Paine contributes a true adventure account, "Bright Roads of Adventure," focused on China travel.