The Popular Magazine, September 20, 1922

Catalog Description: Popular Magazine, September 20, 1922 This issue of *Popular Magazine* features diverse adventure and Western fiction. The lead story is "That Nice Dragon," a complete novel by William West Winter about mining life in the Coffin Range and the remote salt desert town of Welcome City. Winter's narrative opens with detailed descriptions of the Salduro—a vast salt desert traversed by a transcontinental railroad—before introducing Sylvia Bartlett, a vaudeville dancer stranded in Welcome City after her show fails. The serialized tale "The Sleep Mixer" by Henry Francis Granger begins Part I. "Foolish Finance" and "A Bet on Captain Gaston" provide shorter fiction, while "Buck Varney's Friend" by Henry Herbert Knibbs and "Bootlegger's Luck," a novelette by B. M. Bower, continue the Western and adventure themes. The issue also includes "Blood of the Dog" by T. Von Ziekursch and Part IV of the ongoing series "Me and Slane" by H. de Vere Stacpoole, alongside Part II of "The Thunderbolt" by Howard Vincent O'Brien.