Argosy All-Story Weekly, February 12, 1927 — page 166: what you’re looking at

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Wy ee = 5 story is all right | now v and then, but they are hard to find. What I mean by a good Western story is _ 160 in the first person and it was highly interesting. Indeed, I was very sorry to see it end so soon. And there was no braggadocio air about it, either. 1 don’t want you to change your magazine. I love it for its variety. There is a story for every mood, Please tell Richard Barry to give us another serial like “Don Rando’” and “ Worth Millions.” Mr. Burroughs had better put of his thinking cap and trot out another “different” story. How about some more from Mars? My dad is a railroader and he shed quite a few tears over Don Waters’s “How Better Can a Man.” Aren’t there more railroad stories in some siding? I have just finished “ Face Value.” It was great. Why is Mr. Farley so quiet? Is he, perhaps, thinking again about “The Radio Planet”? Hurry up. “War Spawn” is going to be good. I can scarcely wait for the next issue of Arcosy. Mrs. B. W. B. CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. In reading your letter section of the Arcosy- Atistory of December 4, I noticed a letter from H. M. K., of Endicott, New York, strongly de- nouncing all the Western stories that have ap- peared in your magazine, and four in particular— one of which was “ The Hunting of Wild Gulch Wolf,’ by Garret Smith. I have been reading carefully all opinions of your readers—as expressed in the letters published—and I feel that more praise is due Garret Smith for his short stories in general, and particularly for “The Hunting of Wild Gulch Wolf,” than has been given him. In that tale the writer combines an element of sus- pense with a dramatic ending in a highly satis- factory manner, but it is his descyiptive powers as much as anything else that make the story more realistic than any short story that has appeared in Arcosy for some time. It is such stories as “ The Hunting of Wild Gulch Wolf” that add variety to the many other qualities of your weekly, and I think serves to make it the best fiction magazine published. Please let us have some more of Garret Smith’s stories. “Opened Eyes,” by John Wilstach, was also extremely entertaining, and I am sure that many others besides myself would be delighted to hear more from him. T think that D. S. H., in the December 4 issue, has come a lot closer to the solution than any one else. L. A. D. St, Pau, Minn. I have been watching with interest the readers’ viewpoints on Western stories, and I cannot resist the temptation. Here is mine: I have been an almost constant reader of the Arcosy since it was the Arcosy. Unquestionably it is one of the finest fiction magazines on the mar- ket, but why clutter up a good magazine with a lot of Western story “bunk”? <A good Western ARGOSY-ALLSTORY WEEKLY. one written around facts of the “Old West.” But the sort of Western stories printed in the Arcosy and other magazines are positively disgusting. Such things simply do not happen nowadays. IT am a native of South Dakota and have spent considerable time roaming the many Western States. I know the West as it is. This wonder- ful country is still full of romance and excitement about which many modern stories of interest could’ be written, but this material is not to be found at the point of a “ six-gun.” T was surprised and pleased last week when T read the short story, ‘‘ Navajo,” and found that it reached its climax without the aid of a “ Colt forty-five’? and much bloodshed. I have just finished the second installment of “ War Spawn” and it certainly has the “ makings ” of a fine story. * Moonglow ” was wonderful! C. F. Coe is to be complimented on that writing. “ Personality Plus,” “The Black Past,’ “On to Florida,” “You’re Under Arrest ” were other good stories. Give us more of this class and “can” that wild Western stuff, unless they are stories of the old West as it used to be, or the new West as it is to-day. H. M. K., of Endicott, New York, voices my sentiments exactly—-December 4. A good foot- ball, baseball, or World War story now and then would be appreciated by many. I thank you. Yours until the Arcosy turns Western. H. D. R: Dayton, OxI0. Read your “ Moonglow” and liked it very much. I save up six copies of the Arcosy and then finish all of the serials one after the other, and in this way get the continuity of them bet- ter. Have read the Arcosy since 1898, and enjoy it more and more as I grow older. Will E. K. Means write another story soon? I always hun-« ger for his. W. S. G. | —_—wemee Wasuincton, D. C. My buddy and I read every issue of Arcosy, and we could hardly wait for the next. We left Chicago via the blind baggage route and I missed him at Pittsburgh and don’t know what has be- come of him. Am afraid he got hurt and is ill somewhere without a friend—I know if he is alive and has ten cents he will be reading the next issue of Arcosy, so will you please have a heart and put this somewhere in your magazine so he will see it. I am strong, but he has T. B., and I usually made the living for the two of us. Have a good job here. His name is Arthur Griffin, and my name and address is Joun CAsry, 3475 14th Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. CoLFax, WASH. Fewer Western stories. The fewer the better, You have been printing ‘way too many lately, Give us more “ impossible” stories, such as “ The Radio ‘Planet ” and the Tarzan paves also the: Bs ecemicboak< com