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First published eight years ago by Scribner, under the title Lige Mounts: Free Trapper, this commendable novel tells of the making of a frontiersman, rather than the life of one. Its distinction does not lie in the story, which is adequate but not unusual: Lige, aged 19 in 1822, is caught up in the frontier enthusiasm, joins three companions in St. Louis, goes up the Missouri to the Yellowstone and on up to the Marias for a winter's trapping. One of the men is killed in a brush with the Gros Ventre Indians, the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Indian Story | 8/18/1930 | See Source »

...happy day for Cowboy James when he sent in his first story, with pictures by himself, to Scribner's Magazine. It was accepted. He decided he had had enough cowpunching, that it would be more satisfying to write about it and draw pictures to match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lone Prairee* | 8/11/1930 | See Source »

LONE COWBOY?Will James?Scribner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lone Prairee* | 8/11/1930 | See Source »

...Quality Group, comprised of Century, Harper's, Scribner's, World's Work, Review of Reviews, Atlantic Monthly endeavored to induce advertisers to purchase space in the entire group. It disintegrated in 1928, partly because of disagreements over page-size; partly because the "strong" members wearied of carrying the "weak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Century's End | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

Most vehement in his denunciation of the plan was Mr. Knopf who justifiably claims to have made many a good book popular, and to have raised typographic and material standards in American book manufacture. Concurring with him were E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., Frederick A. Stokes, Scribner's, G. P. Putnam's Sons. These and others were content to say that they had no intention of joining the stampede. Mr. Knopf, who has given the matter much thought, said further...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Book War | 6/2/1930 | See Source »

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