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University of Montana ScholarWorks at University of Montana The Frontier and The Frontier and Midland Literary Magazines, 1920-1939 University of Montana Publications 3-1930 The Frontier, March 1930 Harold G. Merriam Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/frontier Let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Recommended Citation Merriam, Harold G., "The Frontier, March 1930" (1930). The Frontier and The Frontier and Midland Literary Magazines, 1920-1939. 31. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/frontier/31 This Journal is brought to you for free and open access by the University of Montana Publications at ScholarWorks at University of Montana. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Frontier and The Frontier and Midland Literary Magazines, 1920-1939 by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at University of Montana. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE FRONTIER A MAGAZINE O f THE NORTHWEST m M A R C H The Corn Knife, a story by Grace Stone Coates. Poems by Lew Sarett and H. L. Davis. New Material on Abraham Lincoln, recorded by Martha Dolman §;L oux.! A French Picture of Cheyenne, Wyoming, in 1867. Translated from the French by W ilson O. Clough. Ranching in Central Montana, \8&2~&3. Edited by Lucia B. Mirrielees. Other Stories by Roland English Hartley. Mary Hicmstra, Muriel Nichols McKay, Elizabeth Needham, Jay G. Sigmund. Sketches by May Vontver and Dorothy Marie Johnson." Other Poems by Ethel Romig Fuller, Mary J. Elmendorf, Irene H. Wilson, Queene B. | Lister, Lilian White, Spencer, Verne Bright, Naomi Wiley, Phyllis B* ;Morden, j*. Helen Maring, Grace D. Baldwin, John L, Casteel, Sally Elliott Allen, Courtland W. Matthews, Louis Ginsberg, Robert Gates, Marjorie J. Ryan. Other Articles by Pat T . Tucker, Paul F. Tracy, and James Marshall.: Vo l u m e x n u m b e r 3 PUBLISHED IN NOVEMBER, JANUARY, MARCH, AND MAY, AT THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA, MISSOULA FORTY c e n t s a c o p y — o n e d o l l a r a n d a h a l f a y e a r H E R R IC K ’S F A M O U S ICE C R E A M SOLD Wholesale and Retail W E M AKE Loveliness, Lovelier Smart Permanent Waves Delicious Ices Artistic Marcels Finger Waves Manicures Hair-Tinting Sherbets and Creams Scalp Treatments Magical Facials - Special Shampoos BARBARA’S VANITY SHOP 519 South Higgins 207 First National Bank Building— Third Floor i : Phone 3535 Missoula • Montana M IS S O U L A Compliments DRUG COMPANY Wholesale and Be tall of Agents and Distributors for ELIZABETH ARDEN O. H. 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Volume Ten MARCH, 1930 Number Three CONTENTS Mr. Thomas H arris; and Lincoln’s Horse in Funeral Dress, cuts.......................Frontispiece The World Has a Way with Eyes, poem.................................................. Lew Sarrett 183 In the Park, story....................................................................Roland English Hartley........... 184 Juan Chacon, poem......,..................................................................................H. L. Davis...........187 Salt Marsh, poem..............................................................................Ethel Romig Fuller... 191 The Last of the Lincoln Singers.............................................. Martha Dolman Loux 192 Wooden Legs, story............................................. ................... «............... Mary Hiemstra........... 195 The Clam Digger, poem...................................................................Mary J. Elmendorf........... 201 Peacock, story.......... ....................................................................Muriel Nichols McKay........... 203 Duel, poem ............................................................................................Irene H. Wilson........... 209 The Corn Knife, story............................................. ........................ Grace Stone Coates..........210 Poems.......................................... God Made de W orl’, and Jeff, by Queene B. Lister........... 214 Pima-Pueblo Tale, an Amerindian, by Lilian White Spencer...........216 The Ballad of Peter, by Verne Bright; Ship World, by Naomi Wiley...........217 Color of Beauty, by Phyllis Morden; Gardener, by Helen Maring...........218 Somewhere Off the Highway, poem............................................ by Grace D. Baldwin........ 219 Little Houses, by John Casteel; “Lambs Have the Grace,” by Sally Elliott Allen..........220 The Horse that Saw a Ghost, story............................................ .'.Elizabeth Needham..."... ...221 Roseberries, poem, by Courtland W. Matthews; To a Young Girl, poem, . __ by Louis Ginsberg.......... 226 The Broken Pump, story.................................................................. j . g Sigmund 227 Four Sonnets ....:..........................................................................................Robert Gates.......... 230 Ranchwoman .............................................................................................. May Vontver........... 232 ^ear ........................................................................................... Dorothy Marie Johnson.......... 234 OPEN RANGE The Sad Story of a High-Heeled Cowboy...................................Pat T. Tucker.............235 How to Ride the Broncho..............................................................Paul F. Tracy.[..""~.237 The First Pioneer, A Desperately Historical Note.......................James Marshall...........238 Telescope, poem....................................................................................Marjorie J. Ryan...........239 HISTORICAL SECTION A French View of Cheyenne, Wyoming, 1867.......Translated by W. O. Clough 240 Early Ranching in Central Montana, 1882-83...........................Otto Merdian DAmroTrriT Edited by Lucia B. Mirrielees...........243 BOOKSHELF Books by Lilian White Spencer, Harold Viual (ed.), Lucia Trent, Stith Thompson (ed), Walt Coburn, Agnes Lout, Ernest S. Osgood, Stanley Vestal, Britton Davis. W. S. Davis, Flora Warren Seymour, J. Corson Miller, Edmund Blunden. Siegfried Sassoon, Richard Aldington, Robert Graves. ABOARD THE COVERED WAGON—Contributors..................Front Advertising Section BOARD OF EDITORS Editor........................................H arold G. M brriam 'G race R a y m o n d H e b a r d University of Wyoming Assistant Editors.......f G race S tone C oates Advisory Editors P a u l C. P h il l ip s l B r a ssil F itzgerald for the Histor University of Montana ical Section..... rcher H u l b e r t F r a n k B. L in d e r m a n A B . Contributing Editors. Colorado College J a m e s Stevens P h il ip A s h t o n R ollin s L e w S arett . Princeton Manuscripts should he sent to the Editor; business communications to Elsie Heicksen or Keith Heilbronner, Business Managers; subscriptions to Walter Taylor, Circulation Man ager all at the State University of Montana, Missoula. Contributions are welcome at any time of the year. Verse, sketch, essay, article, drama, story, umtten with sincerity and interest, are acceptable. Copyright, 1930, by H. G. Merrlam. Published in November, January, March and May. A ct ofn Marcha 3,Sm 9 .d' 0laS8 May 4’ 1928, at the Postofflc» at Missoula, Montana, under The Frontier is a member of the Missoula Chamber of Commerce. You’re going somewhere when you go with Camels The road to pleasure is thronged with smokers who have discovered the superior fragrance and mellow mildness of this better cigarette. © 1930, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, N. C. ABOARD THE COVERED WAGON Lew Sarett, a contributing editor, sends the Bookshelf, lives in Denver, and Wilson I bis strong and beautiful poem from Laona, 0 . Clough, who has translated Mr. Simonin’s I Wisconsin, where he spends six months or account of Cheyenne, is a professor of Eng- I more of every year writing. lish at The University of Wyoming. Roland English Hartley, San Francisco, The Southwest has one writer in this I will have another story in the May issue. issue, Elizabeth Needham, o f Santa Fe. His story, Office Hours, was in the Febru In the Middle West live Jay Sigmund, I ary Harper’s. Cedar Rapids, well known short story I H. L. Davis is spending the winter in the writer, and Robert Gates, of the same city; I Southwest. Jean Chacon is one of the most and John Casteel, Evanston, Illinois. The I powerful poems ever published in The Fron last two writers are new to Frontier readers. I tier. Mr. Davis’s writing is appearing fre In this issue eleven new writers and three | quently in The American Mercury. new editors of manuscripts are introduced