Wild West Weekly No. 637

# Catalog Note

Young Wild West and the Servians; or, The Shot That Saved a General by An Old Scout appears in this January 1, 1915 issue of this weekly Western pulp magazine. The story follows Young Wild West, an American sharpshooter traveling with a Wild West show, who has earned the Kaiser's favor after saving Crown Prince Frederick Wilhelm's life at a French battle. Alongside his partners Cheyenne Charlie and Jim Dart, plus their female companions Arietta Murdock, Anna, and Eloise Gardner, and the Chinese performer Hop Wah, Wild secures passage by rail from Berlin to Vienna and beyond, seeking military adventure in the Austrian-Serb-Russian theater. The narrative details their negotiations with the American Embassy and German royal officials to arrange transportation for their party and horses. The story contextualizes the conflict's origin in a Servian assassination of an Austro-Hungarian royal figure.