Golden Age Fiction

The Ice Goes Out & Raw Men, by Frank Richardson Pierce


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The Ice Goes Out

This is a story of Alaska, in which honest men and crooks propose, but inscrutable Nature disposes.

"The Ice Goes Out" appeared in "Adventure," July 1st 1928, pages 58 - 61.

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Raw Men

Dick Walton's father had sent him out on Hanson's Arctic trading schooner to make something of him, to make up for his own failings as a father, in the hopes that he could learn that which his father had been unable to teach him. What he learned was that there are men, and there are Raw Men. Which was he?

"Raw Men" appeared in "Blue Book Magazine," November 1924, pages 80 - 85.

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Frank Richardson Pierce (1881-1966) was an American writer, best known for his stories in Western Pulps. He published over 1,500 short stories, 3 novels and 4 films—under his own name and pseudonyms, Erle Stanly Pierce and Seth Ranger—over a 50-year career. He was a founding member of the Northwest Writers Association (later renamed the Seattle Free Lances,) and was a member of the Author League of America, the League of Western Writers and the Authors Guild of America.

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Music: "Mesmerizing Galaxy" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

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