Argosy All-Story Weekly, April 14, 1928

About this issue

This issue contains eight fiction works across multiple genres. The lead is a five-part serial by Fred MacIsaac about keeping "a good man down." Arthur Evan James contributes "The Man from the Rio Grande," a novelette involving a boaster's bluff. C. C. Waddell begins a four-part serial, "Damming Hairpin Cañon," concerning crooked dam-building operations. John Wilstach offers "The Author of 'Rope Neckties' Has a Narrow Escape," featuring gunplay on a location called Moonlow. Howard E. Morgan's story involves "shooting wild in a good cause." Morgan Mansfield opens "His Service to Folly," a four-part serial set in Caribbean seas. W. O. McGeehan, noted sports writer, provides a short story titled "The Origin of Wrestling." Additional works include "Gold Hive," Kenneth Perkins's installment set in 1849 San Francisco; "The West Point Romeos" by Lieutenant John Hopper on military academy romance; and stories on frontier conflict, a sailing adventure, and animal antics. The issue balances action, adventure, and sporting narratives.

In this issue

• “Red Hot” by Fred MacIsaac · serial · p.167
• “The Man from the Rio Grande” by Arthur Evan James · novelette · p.180
• “Damning Hairpin Canon” by C. C. Waddell · serial · p.199
• “The Author of "Rope Neckties" Has a Narrow Escape” by John Wilstach · p.200
• “Gunplay on Moonlow” by Howard E. Morgan · p.210
• “His Service to Folly” by Morgan Mansfield · serial · p.232
• “The Origin of Wrestling” by W. O. McGeehan · p.235
• “Srening” by Kenneth Perkins · serial · p.259
• “The West Point Romeos” by Lieut. John Hopper · p.271
• “Notched Guns” by James Perley Hughes · p.280
• “Pork and Beans” by Thomas Thursday