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Scan of the original four part serial which was published in the pulp magazine <b><i>Adventure</i></b> (July 20, 1922; July 30, 1922; August 10, 1922; August 30, 1922).<br><br><span><b>Tiger River</b> was first published in book form in hardcover in 1923 by Harper &amp; Brothers, the year following its serialization in <b><i>Adventure</i></b>. <br clear="none"></span><div dir="ltr"><span><br clear="none"></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span>In 1971, it was reprinted in paperback by Centaur Press as part of its 
<p>"Time-Lost" series of reprints of pulp fantasy &amp; adventure stories, 
with cover art by Jeff Jones. Centaur Press was co-founded by legendary 
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SF &amp; fantasy small-press publisher Donald M. Grant. <br clear="none"></span></div><div dir="ltr"><br><span>Arthur O. Friel's heyday was the 1920s and 30s and his work appeared
    almost exclusively in <b><i>Adventure</i></b> magazine.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span>Perhaps his best known work was a series of novels set in the jungles of Central and South America concerning the adventures of three
<pre>   soldiers-of-fortune named Roderick McKay, Meredith Knowlton and Tim
   Ryan. They had served together in WW1 and now were out looking for
   adventure.  <br clear="none"><br clear="none">The second book in the series was <b>Tiger River</b> (1922) in which the boys, accompanied
   by the Peruvian bandit Jose Martinez, head up the Tiger River in
   search of Inca treasure. Along the way they free a tribe of
   enslaved Indians forced to work in gold mines and return home with a
   vast quantity of gold. <span>It's a fast-paced, highly entertaining read marred
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    only slightly by the casual racism of the times.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span><br clear="none"></span></div>
<br>Subjects: Pulps; Pulp Magazines; Adventure; Science Fiction; Fantasy; Lost Race; Arthur O. Friel</div>
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