University of Montana ScholarWorks at University of Montana The Frontier and The Frontier and Midland Literary Magazines, 1920-1939 University of Montana Publications 1-1930 The Frontier, January 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, January 1930" (1930). The Frontier and The Frontier and Midland Literary Magazines, 1920-1939. 30. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/frontier/30 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]. iONTIER * MAGAZINE Of TH€ NORTHWEST ■gl' JANUARY Tony and Marcia, a story by Mary Hesse Hartwick. Human Interest Forest Fires, by Howard R. Flint. The Cabin on Elk Prairie, a story by Howard McKinley Corning. Early Day Horse Trailing, by Luke D. Sweetman; The First Wagon Train on the Road to Oregon, edited by Archer B. Hulbert. Other Stories by Roland English Hartley, Neta Lohnes Frazier, Dorothy Marie John- 1 son, Sallie Elliott Allen. Poems by Badger Clark, Queene B, Lister, Arthur Truman Merrill, Harry Noyes Pratt, Courtland W. Matthews, Norman Madeod, John Scheffer, G r a c e Stone Coates, 1 Corson Miller, Ellen M. Carroll, Lncia Trent, Lucile Bradley, Holmes Parsons, Kathleen T. Young, Lucy M. C. Robinson, Laurence Pratt, Al.cia O’Donnell, Paul F. Tracy. VOLUME X NUM BER 2 PUBLISHED IN NOVEMBER, JANUARY, MARCH, AND MAY AT THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA, MISSOULA f o r t y CENTS A COPY—ONE DOLLAR AND A HALF A YEAR Claire ^caiitg ^Ifop Patronize Service CLAIBE LEIN Stations Operated by a Missoula Industry A Christmas Special 4 * 4 * FOR Y O U Three fully equipped service Permanent Waves stations, located at S. Higgins and 6th St. $ 6 . 5 0 N. Higgins and Alder St. and HI Wolf St. and N. 1st St. 4 * «$• 503 Wilma Bldg. HART REFINERIES Dial 2600 |A Local Industry*' Attention,Students BOOKS REFRESHMENTS SOUVENIRS Campus Gossip Exchange. A good place to gain the OLD COLLEGE SPIRIT A ssociated Students’ Store Has kept pace with the development of the University and is a real Campus Institution. Come in and look us over. EVERY MODERN FEATURE that makes for comfort, convenience, safety and reliability is embodied in the equipment and operation of the new Olympian easiest riding train in America Roller Bearings all the way between Puget Sound and Chicago. Electrification for 656 miles over four mountain ranges. Color-light Automatic Block Signals over the mountains extraordinarily efficient. Coil Spring Mattresses in every standard berth— nights of rest. Observation Car containing lounge rooms, shower bath­ rooms, observation parlor, buffet, library, radio, valet, maid. Rector Dining Car Service M. J. EMMERT Agent, Missoula, Montana M. G. MURRAY Division Passenger Agent, Butte, Montana longest electrified railroad in America THE FRONTIER _____________ Reg. U. S. Pat. Off. Volume Ten JANUARY, 19S0 Number Two CONTENTS The Star, poem...........Queene B. Lister......... Decoration by John Ludlow........... Frontispiece Tony and Marcia, tale.........................._-----------*................. .Mary Hesse Hartwick........... 91 Two Poems, The Pioneer; Homesteader.......................... Arthur Truman Merrill........... 96 Ranger Joe, poem................... .................. ....... .................. *...... Harry Noyes Pratt........... 97 Human Interest Fires..........................................................................Howard R. Flint.......... 99 Poems—Ranger’s Widow, Courtiand W. Matthews ; Belly River, Norman Macleod...........104 The Cabin at Elk Prairie, story.....................................Howard McKinley Corning......... 105 Abandoned Farmhouse, poem................................................................. John Scheffer...........110 Transient Boarder, story......» ............. ......... ......................Roland English Hartley........... I l l Poems by Badger Clark, Grace Stone Coates, J. Corson Miller, Ellen M. Carroll, Lucia Trent, Lucile Bradley...........117 Story Makin s, story..................................................................... Neta Lohnes Frazier........... 121 Poems...........................Antitheses, Holmes Parsons; Sonnet, Kathleen T. Young........... 130 The Fruit Tramps, story................ — ..................................Dorothy Marie Johnson........... 131 Poems.................. Inarticulate, Lucy M. C. Robinson ; Refraction, Laurence Pratt....... 135 Warp and Woof, story.......................................... ..........................Sallie Elliott Allen......... .136 Poems...............................Wind at Night, and Retreat for Horses, Alicia O’Donnell, OPEN RANGE Scarface Charley, Paul F. Tracy 141 Early Day Horse Trailing......................................................Luke D. Sweetman..........143 HISTORICAL SECTION The First Wagon Train on the Road to Oregon, Edited by Archer B. Hulbert 147 BOOKSHELF Book* b.v Lori Petri, Caroline Hill (editor), Vachel Lindsay, J. W. Schultz, Anne H*nrJ F- Hoyt, Edwin L. Sabin, Paul Palmer (editor), Stuart P. Sherman, laylor Gordon, John D. Guthrie (editor), Mary Brennan Clapp. ABOARD THE COVERED WAGON—Contributors....................Front Advertising Section March issue of The Frontier will contain a poem by Lew Sarett, author of Slow SmoJce^ and The Box of Qod; a story by Roland English Hartley; Prelude to a Picaresque Novel by Ted Olson; Open Range material by Pat (“Tommy”) Tucker; poems by Helen Maring, Lilian White Spencer, and other poets. State of Montana, County of Missoula—ss. G Mer°rllmmewhn ? , and for the state and county aforesaid, personally appeared Harold Hshw^nd^ wner^of^The**Frorfuer^'and^ho? SSV, .t0 P i deposes and says that he U tto editor, pub- statementnf Jlf „ i " ’ and ‘hat ‘he following Is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true Published H M «ri»^dsti?rerf1 0f 2“ p“bUsher' edlt°r, managing editor, and business managers are: Z la Minf- Managing Ednor n™ '™ '.7’, Mls“ ?Ia’ Mont-; Edltor- H. G. Merrlam, State University? Ml*: Mont. M 1 * Edltor’ none’ Business Manager, Keith Hellbronner, State University, Missoula, s' That the tnhSL iSh S fr,‘ild G- Me.rriam’ State University, Missoula, Mont. “ f ' 3 L T 1 “ other °seeurfues1 are ^^None.01™*116 I “ * — security °holders ^ 3Pii| lift £ rVs^r8 SMM ^urlty^oldM^w^^o^o^^p^a/^pon^th*^^8*^ ^hlS^^C’^holders8 mad In a capacity other thin that nt « ,Jh books of ‘ he company as trustees, hold stock and securities T o ^ Sworn ‘?onand fub^fbld ’» me this 3rd day of October, ?929MERBIAM’ “ a“ d E. K. BADQLEY, Notary Public for the State of Montana. Residing at Missoula, Montana. My commission expires June 19th, 1930. When the table talk turns to cigarettes — the men smile quietly and say: “ To smoke Camels is to know the real pleasure of smoking.” The preference of experi­ enced smokers has made Camels by far the most popular cigarette in the United States. Camel © 1930, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco CIGARETTES Company, WInston * Salem, N. C. ABOARD THE COVERED WAGON Queene B. Lister lives in Portland. The Ellen Carroll, Charleston, S. C., edits a decoration for the poem, a paper cut-out, newspaper column of verse, and has contrib­ is by John Ludlow, a student at The State uted poetry to many magazines. Lucia Trent University of Montana. is a widely read Chicago poet. Lucile Brad­ Mary Hartwick thought that a better title ley now lives in Arizona ; Kathleen T . Young for this tale would be Resurgence—“There in New York C ity; Lucy M. C. Robinson is is no Death, no staying of that Divine Wash a poet of Spokane. Alicia O’Donnell is a of Life, which is the Word made flesh . student at The State University o f Montana. And not one jot or tittle of the Word shall Norman Macleod, Albuquerque, is editor of pass away . In these woods wherever M or ad a. human beings have dwelt, even though na­ Story Makin’s is Neta Lohnes F'razier’s ture hurries to cover the scar, some memory first appearance in The Frontier. It is a is there, and it can be plainly felt.” Mrs. story that gains power and significance with Hartwick lives on a homestead near Holland each paragraph. Lake, Montana. The Fruit Tramps comes from Okanogan, Arthur T. Merrill and Harry Noyes Pratt Washington; Dorothy Marie Johnson for­ are California poets. The latter is new to merly lived in Whitefish, Montana. We have The Frontier. never published a story truer to its back­ Howard R. Flint is the district inspector ground. in charge of fires in the U. S. Forest Service, Although Warp and W oof by Sallie Elliott located at Missoula. Allen is another “triangle” story, it has been This is Howard M. Coming’s first prose handled with such sincerity that we are to appear in The Frontier; it is a strongly happy to place it before our readers. flavored and highly individual writing. Mr. Luke Sweetman knows his horses and the Corning is spending the winter in New York country about which he writes. He lives in City. Billings, Montana. John Scheffer, Paul Tracy, Holmes Par­ Archer B . Hulbert, one of The Frontier's sons, Laurence Pratt are Oregon poets new advisory editors for historical material, is a to our pages; the first two live in Eugene, distinguished historian, a professor