<p>McClure's Magazine, an American literary and political magazine, was founded by Samuel McClure in June 1893. The magazine sold for only 15 cents, and featured work of popular writers like Rudyard Kipling, Jack London and Arthur Conan Doyle. </p><p>In 1902 the magazine began to specialize in muckraking journalism. Writers who worked for the magazine during this period included Ida Tarbell, (History of the Standard Oil Company, November, 1902 - October, 1904; John D. Rockefeller: A Character Sketch, July, 1905); Lincoln Steffens (Enemies of the Republic, March, 1904; Rhode Island: A State for Sale, February, 1905; New Jersey: A Traitor State, April, 1905; Ohio: A Tale of Two Cities, July, 1905) and Ray Stannard Baker (What the United States Steel Corporation Really Is?, November, 1901; The Right to Work, January, 1903; Reign of Lawlessness, May, 1904, What is Lynching; January, 1905; Railroads on Trial, January, 1906, How Railroads Make Public Opinion, March, 1906). </p><p>Sales of the McClure's Magazine declined in the 1920s and the last issue appeared in March 1929.</p>