The Wide World, May 1920

This May 1920 issue of The Wide World Magazine presents fiction emphasizing adventure and travel. The featured serial "Lucky Pete," illustrated by Warwick Reynolds and credited to Stuart Cumberland, centers on a dog and his master Allan Macdonald during the Klondyke gold rush. The narrator, a Cambridge acquaintance of Macdonald's, recounts how the devoted dog served as Macdonald's sole companion and "mascot" in the remote northern goldfields. The story establishes a secondary character, "Hell Fire Ned," a volatile California mine operator whom the narrator previously encountered; their meeting ended with Ned firing shots at the narrator's departing stagecoach. The narrative shifts to Spokane, British Columbia, where the narrator attends a high-stakes poker game among mining magnates, a senator, judge, and businessman. The excerpt suggests convergence of these plot threads involving the goldfields, the dog, and Hell Fire Ned.