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Trial By Fire
By Haycox, Ernest (author)
Original publication: The Ridgway Company (in Adventure Magazine), May 8, 1926
On the morning of June 17, 1775, Dr. Isaac Brent—a staunch Tory physician in colonial New England—rides toward the widow Potter's home, unaware that history is unfolding on Breed's Hill. When he discovers that his patriot neighbors have fortified the heights above Charlestown, he dismisses their rebellion as the folly of agitators. But as British redcoats storm the redoubt and the doctor tends the wounded amid smoke and carnage, he confronts a truth that shatters his loyalties: men do not fight and die with such conviction for anything less than a just cause. By sunset, the battle has baptized him anew—no longer a king's man, but a servant of the revolution.
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Keywords: American Revolution historical fiction, Battle of Bunker Hill, Revolutionary War novel, Tory to patriot conversion, colonial New England, 1775 Boston, loyalist conflict, military surgeon fiction, American independence, 18th century war drama
Gold
By Leslie, Burt (author)
Original publication: Doubleday, Doran & Co. (in Short Stories Magazine), September 10, 1930
When a massive blast in the Elkhorn mine reveals a fortune in pure gold, young Clark Henderson discovers the strike lies on his inherited property—the very mine his father died trying to work. But ruthless mine baron Hard Sturdivant, who ruined Henderson's father years before, holds the mortgages and will own the Summit mine in thirty days. Racing against time and Sturdivant's hired gunmen, Clark must reopen his father's abandoned shaft and reach the gold before the foreclosure deadline. In the depths of Globe Mountain, one final confrontation will determine whether justice or greed claims the richest strike in Colorado.
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Keywords: vintage pulp adventure, gold mining fiction, Colorado Western, mining rivalry, 1930s action story, mountain prospecting, underdog revenge tale, historical mining drama, gold strike thriller, classic Western adventure
The Boy Who Couldn’t Fly
By Verral, Charles S. (author)
Original publication: Ziff-Davis Publishing Co. (in Air Adventures magazine), December 1939
Dan Sutherland dreams of flying, but his crippled leg and his father's mysterious opposition keep him grounded. While his wealthy rival Jerry Blackwell flaunts a gleaming new aircraft and an amateur pilot's license, Dan can only practice in secret aboard the Night Hawk—a crude mock airplane built from scrap in his family's barn loft. When Jerry's cruelty escalates and a dangerous flight goes terribly wrong, Dan must prove that real courage isn't measured by what you can do on the ground. Set in small-town America during aviation's golden age, this is a timeless story of determination, self-discovery, and the power of dreams to lift us above our limitations.
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Keywords: 1930s aviation fiction, young adult coming of age, disability and courage, vintage aircraft stories, overcoming adversity, small town America 1930s, teen pilot adventure, bullying and triumph, golden age of flight, father son reconciliation