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DECEMBER SUNSET
WALTER V. WOEHLKE
Contributing Editor
CHARLES K. FIELD
Editor
LILLIAN FERGUSON
Associate Editor
TWO BIG SERIALS begin in this number. One of them is fiction, the other fact. The fiction is based on fact and the fact reads like fiction. There you have a recipe for human interest! The fiction serial, "The Man Who Won," is a reflection of several years' residence in the Wyoming country it describes and the result of intelligent study of one of the most interesting periods of the history of that region. It deals with the dramatic clash between determined occupants and equally determined invaders and it is a real story of the West with the best meaning of the West as its motif. The fact serial, "Autobirds of Passage," has a heroine, also—the Lovely Lady, and the dramatic clash in this story is chiefly between the desire of the Lady to linger in the beauty-spots to which this motor flight brings her and the eagerness of the Mere Man to fly northward and meet the challenge of the unmotored roads toward the Alaskan border.
Furthermore: the cover design of this number is fact, not fiction.
CONTENTS
COVER DESIGN: A California Water-baby W. H. BULL
"Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates!"' Frontispiece
An autochrome photograph made at the Gatun locks, Panama Canal, by Earle Harrison, reproduced in colors
Autobirds of Passage E. ALEXANDER POWELL 1115
The record of a motor-flight along the Coast from Mexico to Alaska after the manner of birds of passage who pass northward in the spring from a warm climate to a cooler one
Illustrated in colors
The Man Who Won WILLIAM R. LIGHTON 1125
The story of a struggle for the possession of land between stockmen and farmers. This first instalment, "The Challenge," begins the contest which makes a double battleground of a sturdy stockman's heart, since the opposing farmer has a daughter Illustrated in tint from sketches made on the scene of the novel, in company with the author, by Arthur Cahill
Chez Grevé G. SIDNEY PATERNOSTER 1137
If you have read the other "Adventures of Anastasius" by this author, you will be greatly interested in finding that astonishing young person engaged in a piece of tender charity the account of which makes a Christmas story of rare charm
Illustrated by Arthur Cahill
Immigration ROBERT NEWTON LYNCH 1144
I. The Anticipated Immigrant. First of a series of authoritative articles on this vital Western topic by a former member of the California Immigration Commission and based on careful and constructive investigation
Homestead EDITH RONALD MIRRIELEES 1150
A new story by the biographer of the Benson family, told with the same insight into the hearts of men and women that has endeared the plain Benson folks to thousands of readers and with an equally deep insight into the conditions of Western life
Illustrated by Arthur Cahill
Smoke-stacks on the Pacific WALTER V. WOEHLKE 1161
Mr. Woehlke gives the result of his investigations regarding the future of the Pacific Coast as a manufacturing region. The article is full of surprises and leads to a most interesting conclusion
The Disappearing Trick PETER B. KYNE 1172
Peter Kyne digs up the strangest characters in the strangest places. He seems to strike pay dirt wherever he puts his literary pick. This time it is "Molini the Magician" and the way he juggles with Mr. Porky O'Hara and his partner makes holiday reading
Illustrated by L. J. Rogers
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