The Long Arm Of The Mounted - William Byron Mowery (1948)
The Long Arm Of The Mounted is a collection of four tales of adventure about the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, set in the frozen wastes of the Canadian Northwest. One of the stories comes from a 1925 issue of Adventure . The other three were either: (a) first published in this volume; (b) retitled from their original appearance in a magazine; or (c) are stories from issues of magazines which have not yet been indexed in The FictionMags Index (since the book has no source acknowledgments, it's hard to know which!). Rather than depicting an action scene, the dust jacket artwork by artist Stephen J. Voorhies (1898-?) features an almost idyllic scene with a Mountie in his bright red uniform saying goodbye to his sweetheart in her simple blue and white dress. His native Canadian scout is in the background preparing a canoe for their mission. By 1948, Northwest fiction had developed a strong female readership (the popular pulp magazine North-West Stories had been retitled North-West Romances in 1937 with that in mind). McGraw-Hill’s art director may have requested that Voorhies illustrate this particular scene for the dust jacket in order to increase the appeal of the book to female readers. CONTENTS: THE MYSTERY OF THE GHOST GOLD • 7 MANNIKIN TALK • 67 ( Adventure , January 30, 1925) A RELIC OF THE VIKINGS • 83 (Later reprinted in Pocket Book Weekly Storyteller , June 4, 1949) SHEPHERD OF THE STORM • 101 About The Author (excerpted from Brian Alan Burhoe's excellent article…
- Series
- The Long Arm Of The Mounted
- Genres
- Adventure
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Pulp adventure
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Internet Archive