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1978Features: "Stringin' a Greener"; White Horse, Black Horse - Murder!; Zane Grey's Original 'Lone Star Ranger'; A Hoodooed mine; The Squaw Line; Two Men Named John; Espionage Agent Pauline Cushman; 'Cat Hanging' with Greyhounds; Lottery in Laramie; Trapped Alive!; Grandma was an old-time Ranch Cook; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
1974Features: Artist "Shorty" Shope; Lost River of Silver; The Only Conchita; Dyrenforth's Assault on the Heavens; Jekyll-Hyde of the Twin Territories; Tragedy in Fremont County; When Steam was Power; The Murder of Cadete; Sam Colt's Big Pistol; Cyclones and Neighbors; Old Wimberley Mills; At Strawberry, Arizona; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
1973Features: Sky's the Limit?; Maysville was a Whiskey Runner's Heaven!; Taking a Short Cut to a Long Shot; Old Cowboy Montan'; Lost Mines in the El Paso Range; George McJunkin's Pile of Bones; Missouri River Girl; The Bear Chaser; No Need to Talk Religion; On the Trail of Gabe Hans; British Columbia's Doukhobors; Murder or an act of war?; The Little Bit of Trickery; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
1964Features: Gold Trails of 1898; The Other World of the Superstitions; A Pair of Outlaws; King of Mountain Men; Murder in the Bitterroots; Outlaws in the Brush; A Ghost Named Jones; "Let 'er Rip" Montana; He Out-Robbed Jesse James; Here Lies Buried Treasure!; Too Tough to Die; Cowboy Rides a Camel; Choctaw Execution; Man-Eater of Powderhorn Creek; Indian Fight; Smokey Joe; Saved by a Glass-Eyed Horse; Bad Man; Operation Ghost Town; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Magazine
1959Features: Why you can't fool the radar cops; 3-panel colour fold-out - Man's fastest rides on land, sea and air; The Navy's inert fabrication mill being built by Universal Cyclops Steel Corp. at Bridgeville, PA; Why Men Murder; Learning to live with the sonic boom; Riding Lawn Mowers; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
1918Portrait of Senhor Norton de Mattos, Portuguese Minister of War. Features: German Espionage Unmasked - a world-wide campaign of secret sabotage and murder; 6 centerfold photos of Portuguese forces; Portugal's Part in the War; War Bonds advert on back cover. Staples disintegrated. Average wear. Book
1911Features: The House of Death; In Mysterious Senoussi Lana - a story from the heart of the Sahara; Pietro's Lost Mine - fortune knocks on a gold prospector's door, only to vanish in a strange way; The Turk at Play - interesting pastimes, including camel-fighting!; The Undoing of Ba Tin - a curious story of murder from Burma as told by a high police official; Our Trek Beyond the Zambesi - Mrs. Maturin; An American Gretna Green - The Rev. A.H. Burroughs, the 'marrying person' of Tennessee; On the Shoals - a tale of desperate peril and splendid heroism on Lake Erie involving the steamer 'Clarion'; The Mountain of the Ark - a description of an ascent of Mount Ararat; Jim Christie and the Bear, by C.H. Gibbons of the Legislative Assembly, Victoria, B.C. - the story of an appalling adventure with a grizzly, the like of which does not exist in the annals of big-game hunting; My Wanderings in Crete; Professor C.H. Hawes studies head-forms and sets forth his experiences, incidentally describing some very curious customs which he encountered; Iveson's Trap - an extraordinary accident strikes a Yorkshire farmer while shepherding in Shunner Fell, Swaledale; Among Ryper and Reindeer in Norway - C.V. Pell hunts game and relates his experiences; Lighting a Bush Fire - an account of an experience in Victoria during the drought of 1898. Above-average wear. Covers holding but loosely. Bonus: Laid-in is a 2016 feature newspaper article on Jim Christie, who appears on the cover of this issue. The article includes an actual photo of the magazine we are offering. Magazine
1954Features: The Enchanted Islands - The Galapagos Islands; The Mountain of Gold - reprint of a 1926 story in which an Englishman accepts an inviation to travel to a 'mountain of gold' in British Columbia, Canada; The Way Back - After crashing in Iceland, 2 airmen walk 70km to civilization - author Major-General H.L. Davies; The 'Black Magic' Tiger - in India a rifle is 'charmed' to kill a tiger; Pork-Knocking - fellows who go into the wilds of British Guiana to dig for diamonds - great photos; When Awang Ruled Simporna - the story of a prisoner in British North Borneo; Our Murder Mystery in the Cook Archipelago; A Question of Feet - a wily old farmer in South-West Africa outwits the police; Sky Workers - men who work at dangerous heights (great photo); Trail of the Snake - West African Gold Prospectors follow the advice of a Witch Doctor; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Book
1918Cover illustration depicts 'First-Aid' for Fighting Tanks. Topics: Photo of British Troops at the St. Quentin Canal; What the British Army Has Done, by Lovat Fraser; Great Joy in Lille Delivered from the German; General Ludendorff by Hamilton Fyfe; Bridging Difficulties on the Road to Victory; Helps and Hindrances along the Lines of Advance; Real & Realistic Tanks in the War-Swept West; Free after Four Long Years of Oppression; Ostend won back from Unconquerable Belgium; Foiling the Foe from the Alps to the Adriatic; Ministering Women Whom Men Hold in Honour; Hun Obstacles that Failed to Hinder the French; With the 'Chinks' (Chinese Labourers) in France - Stories of Loyal Helpers from the Far East; Murder on the High Seas by the Kaiser's Minions; On Active Service - Glimpses of V.A.D. Work; Valiant Men Rewarded with the Victoria Cross; 'Back to Your Beer-Mugs' - Germany from Within by Frederic William Wile. Average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. A worthy copy. Book
1968Features: Arizona in the '50's (first part); It's Death to Bonnie and Clyde - great photos; Sand Dunes of Gold - at Whiskey Run, Oregon; Wyatt Earp's Letters to Bill Hart; Did Edison get 'turned on' in Wyoming; Knights of the Wagon Yard - horse traders; Independence Day Murder - Park City, Utah; The Apemen of Mt. St. Helens; Point of Rocks - the Cimarron cut-off witnessed lots of trouble; Fort Lancaster - lower road to the west; Wild Old Days!; The Hermit of Ruby City. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
1971Features: The lamentable loss of La Reine Des Mers - a lost load of wine; New Mexico's most ruthless murder - Martin Nelson; Granby Idol - found in the Colorado River; Death on the Desert - Skull Valley; Treasure Trove and the Law - knowing if you'll be able to keep your find; Montana was not for farmers; Tales of the Dirt Tramps - road and highway construction; Shirt-Tail Canyon, California; Interpreter for the Apaches - George Wratten; Cave-Inn-Rock on the Ohio - hunt for relics here; White Collar Versus Black Ball - steamers that were lost; Wild Old Days!; A Rockin' Good Time - Gold finding tools; Discovery of Lone Tree Pass - Major-General Grenville M. Dodge. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
1977Features: Clay Allison & "Mr" Pecos; Spotted Wolf and the Dodge City Toughs; Agricola's "Waybill" - perhaps the world's most ancient and enduring guide to humanity's quest for gold; The Shoot-out - a mutual protection plan may have gone wrong; New Slant on the Murder of Julia Bulette, Virginia City, Nevada; Life and Confession of John Millian; Booger Red - the great rider; Jack Pickens - man with a secret, Summitville and the Little Annie Mine; Photos of Amelia Earhart; The Whistling Mail Truck - the Star Route out of Calhan, Colorado; Elizabeth Lochrie - painter of the winsome and the noble. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
1979Features: A Horse Named Prune; From Chilkoot to Bear Paw - how an artist-author has paid an old debt to a nameless Indian - Ed Lung and William Stacey; The Mogollon Rim Murder - Savage Years in Arizona Territory; Rogue of the Colorado - Fogg Coffey; Cleall Castle - Piggott's Folly, Portland, Oregon - one of the unhandiest dwellings in the west!; What Became of Jesse Evans; Nicotinitus - the amusing tale of Archibald Elmo Holstine and his son Lawrence and their Saskatchewan winter adventure when they ran out of tobacco!; The man who was never convicted - Cantu and his companion flood Mexico with phoney US banknotes; Dad rode with the Wild Bunch - Bert Charter's son gives an interview; Fifty Chancy Years - Ebb Riggs, lawman; Three Men and Three Hundred Hosses - Heading east from Winnemucca and selling as they rode; Wild Old Days!; Mary Bickerdyke and General Sherman - how a nurse and a professional soldier became friends; The Jobbers - Long X Ranch in Montana; Dan Thomas - Town Tamer of Keeler, California. Light wear. Unmarked. Quality copy. Book
1980Features: Arthur Dodge and His X-U Horses; The Lowest Form of Murder - a drunk and an unarmed kid, Pleasanton, New Mexico; Elk are back in the Big Horn Mountains of northern Wyoming!; Roaming the Back Country - Lady Loboes; Bizhozhi, Defiant Navajo, and the Beautiful Mountain Rebellion; Wild Old Days!; Circuit Rider - John Wesley Devilbiss of Texas; Scouting for General Howard - Colonel George Hunter; Take Long Steps, Isaac - Robert and Ruth Gidley Benedict Comfort. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
1981Features: Bunkhouse culture; Murder at Mount Sicker - This peaceful Canadian village was no match for a jealous madman who could disappear and reappear at will; Death in El Dorado - most 49ers had six months to succeed or go hungry; A Very Lively Hermit - Charley Parks; Emma Montgomery Jorgenson - the Queen of the Cook Tent; Neil Howie - Better than his times; Some Tragic Wyoming Characters; Twelve Years Shot - the Lawson Family; Caddo George - Slipped a dagger into Satank; "Dort Naus Ist America" - a siren's song that emptied the Old World and populated the new; Early-Day Orders at Fort Sill; Don Florencio of Lincoln County. A quality copy. Book
1981Features: The Cow Business and Joe Kirley; Riding the Rails with Hood River Blackie - Old Joe Bennett; The First Colorado Mountain Man - Jim Pursley; The Baking Soda Book - Luisa and Henry Benedict; Rice, Dice and Lichee Nuts - America was not the promised land for those who crossed the wrong ocean to get here - Chinese immigrants; Graveyard of Violence - the W.S. Ranch, just north of Alma, New Mexico; Idaho Volunteers and the Nez Perce - an uncovered report reveals how professional some local militia units could be; Licensed Murder - Captain William Byrnes; Deputy Marshal Joe Morgan of New Mexico; A Girl and Her Horse - Chief Plenty Coups invited young women to race, but they weren't supposed to win!; Battle of the Deschutes - sabotage prevailed in the railroaders' war for the key route to San Francisco - with fantastic photo of workers 'walking the plank' to get to work building a bridge 348 feet above the Crooked River Gorge!; Wild Old Days!. Somewhat above-average wear as staples have almost torn free from covers, else a sound copy. Book
1982Features: Sneak attacks and murder - Texas Ranger John Peavey harks back to bloody days on the border - Mexican bandits would derail trains; Mysterious Death at the Washita - Louis McLane Hamilton; Mrs. Henry Plummer - wife of a Philandering Outlaw Sheriff, Bannack, Montana Territory; Bronc Rider for Buffalo Bill - Harry Webb; A House by the Side of the Road - Alamosa Creek; Johnsons on the Chisholm Trail - ancestors of Lyndon Johnson; Orphaned by Black Hawk's Warriors - The Kuhre Family and Ephraim, Utah; Cable Car Genius - Andrew S. Hallidie - he showed San Francisco a better way to climb a hill!; Wild Old Days!. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
1982Features: Henry Turkeyfoot - the last of his kind - he lived by the gun; Charles Banks Wilson - artist; James (Jim) F. Wardner and his Black Cat Farm - on a 2,000 acre island in Bellingham Bay, in upper Puget Sound; Why Woollies give mankind the Willies - James W. Gilmore and sheep; Wolfville, Arizona; Isaac Rouse of Fort Worth - "Coyote Bill" Banty - a bunkhouse murder touched off one of Idaho's biggest manhunts; A Herdsman for Cowman - Walter Gann; Heading South to Taos, by Fred Girard; A Central Pacific Ghost Ride - East to Promontory; The James-Younger Robbery in Columbia, Kentucky; The Desert will do its part - when a man wants to stay a live; Grave/Tombstone photos; Wild Old Days! Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
1919Great black and white photos. Topics include: murder of Count Sturgkh; death of Emperor Francis Joseph; Dr. von Koerber, Austrian Premier; The Ausgleich; The Emperor Charles; Political Changes; Count Czernin; Minister of Foreign Affairs; Effects of the Russian Revolution; Peace Currents; The Reichstrat Summoned; Resignation of Count Tisza; Letter of the Emperor to Prince Sixth of Bourbon; Austrian Victories in Italy; The Peace of Brest-Litovsk; Polish Problems; Allied Victories in France; Effects in Austria-Hungary; Austro-Hungarian Peace Note. Average wear. Covers loose as one but present. Bit of writing on front cover else unmarked. Magazine
196239 pages. Features: I spent a year waiting to be hanged - twice sentenced to the gallows for the murder of a newsboy, this British Columbia cook survived five execution dates - Charles M. Heathman was accused of the murder of Donald Ottley; Two Young French-Canadians delight Montreal audiences by making a Song and Dance about Separatism - Bernard Sicotte and Gilles Richer; How U.S. First Lady Jacqueline (Jackie) Kennedy conquered the world; Aurel Joliat still thrills over that playoff moment with Howie Morenz; Producer in search of more characters - Norma Springford; A Scaasi suit can cost $7,000 - this Canadian designer soars to fashion's peak in New York - Scaasi was born Arnold Isaacs in Montreal; The Mystery of the Giant Lemon - a dwarf tree in a Vancouver suburb yields fruit that weigh as much as 2.5 pounds each; Simple tests that can avert tragedy - PKU, phenylketonuria; Nipper by Doug Wright. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
193770 pages. Features: The Grand Manner - a modest young man in love (Frederick Nebel); Invitation to Dance - The girl who stole a lipstick (Libbie Block); White Man's Burden - in defense of a lady and a tropical isle (Will F. Jenkins); On the Bench - Harun-al-Rashid in modern dress (Frank Condon); Very Much a Lady by Alec Rackowe; Man with a Past - Romance of a stagecoach guard (Ernest Haycox); I Love You Again, Part VI - Suspicion of Murder (Octavus Roy Cohen); Castle Key, Part II - Get up and Fly Again (Dwight Mitchell Wiley); Under Chiang Kai-shek's Hand - Number One in Asia, with photos (Jim Marshall); The Minsky Kids, H.K. and Morton - Art School for strippers/burlesque (Henry F. Pringle); High School Hero - Mr. Bob Feller - The $100,000 rookie (Kyle Crichton); You're the Cook - Kitchen Calm (Betty Thornley Stuart); Who Taught You to Drive? - It's never too late to learn (T.R. Carskadon). Page 23 is a wonderful full-colour ad for a food product called Karo which features charming photos of the Dionne quints (quintuplets). Page 25 is a nice colour ad for Packard cars. Super colour centerfold for the Hudson automobile. Excellent two-page colour ad for Nash cars on pages 48-49. Interesting United Airlines ad on page 55 - does not resemble contemporary air travel! Two-colour Ford V8 truck ad inside back cover. Interesting colour Lucky Strike cigarette ad on back cover suggests that their product offers 'throat protection'. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1970Features: The Road to Murder - why were Gerry MacDonald and Ken Vallee killed 24 miles out of Ottawa on Highway 44?; What makes your car go?; Are we getting enough protection against the chemicals in our food? - Why doesn't the Canadian Food and Drug Directorate ban CMC (Carboxymethyl Cellulose)?; Phenacetin - a drug some authorities suspect may damage your kidneys; The brief beauty of wild flowers; Great full-page colour ad for International pickups; Doug Wright's Family; Maggie Grant. Nice colour ad for the line of Welch's grape juice products. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Please note: page 23/24 is missing and part of page 25 has been clipped, affecting ads only. Page 24 was the first page of an article on basketball star Bobby Croft. Book
1970Features: The Moonlighters - who they are and what they do, and why they need the money; Facts for Fatties - and for thinnies who don't want to become Fatties; The Now Dictionary - new cool words; The ten best fishing lures and why they work so well - Rapala, Arbo-Gaster, Johnson's Silver Minnow, The Mepps, Williams Whitefish, Eppinger Daredevle,Arbogast Jitterbug, Canadian Wiggler, Panther Martin, Jig-Fly; The Manhunt Ends - Part 2 of a 3 part story of the murder of Gerry MacDonald and Ken Vallee on the Almonte Road not far from Ottawa; The fastest brush in the East - Montreal's Claude Langevin can finish three paintings in a day; Maggie Grant; Doug Wright's Family. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Centerfold held by one staple else a sound copy. Book
1970Features: The fashion industry has you under heel; The RCMP - Why the mounties have red faces - their image has been slipping; Onward to Alaska - up the Alaska Highway to the Yukon; The Road to Murder - Part 3 of 3 of the story of the murders of Gerry MacDonald and Ken Vallee on a road near Almonte; Stop killing Canada - letters from Canadians about their environment; Maggie Grant; Doug Wright's Family. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Please note that page 19 is missing - it appears to have been a story about a New York Met baseball player. Nice colour International pickup ad on back cover. Book
1965Features: Haiti - land of the 'Big Tontons'; Vietcong's 'Shadow Government' in the South; Lie Detectors Don't Lie... But...; When will it be safe to balance the (federal) budget? - this question shows how things have changed since the days we thought it unsafe not to; What Russian Girls are Like; A double standard for murder? - never in Mississippi's history has a white man been found guilty of first-degree murder when the slain person was black. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
