Compiled by: Peter Ruber & Victor Berch
Last update: January 15, 2002
GORDON MacCREAGH
August 8, 1886 - August 30, 1953
A - Magazine Fiction
B - Magazine Articles
C - Books
D - About Gordon MacCreagh
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A - Magazine Fiction:
ADVENTURE
The Brass Idol - Oct. 1913
The Getting of Boh Na-Ghee - Nov. 1913
The Attitude of Meditation - Jan. 1914
A Blamed Amateur - Jul. 1914
Featuring Morton St. Clair - Nov. 1914
The Man From Home - May 1915
Contraband - Jul. 1915
Kite Dickinson - Aug. 1915
Forty Dollars a Foot - Sep. 1915
The Oath of the Earth - Oct. 1915
The Scarecrow - Nov. 1915
"That Blasted Discipline" - Sep. 1, 1917
An Officer and a Gentleman - Oct. 1, 1917
Safe and Sane - Jun. 1, 1918
The Honor of the Escadrille - Sep. 1, 1918
The White Man of Borneo - Oct. 1, 1918
The Poison Devil - Feb. 1, 1919
The Great White Dayong - Jun. 15, 1919
A Good Sword and a Good Horse - Jan. 15, 1921
The Crawling Script - Sep. 30, 1923
The Rope of Pedro Mendez - Jan. 10, 1924
The Fish-Nets of Quoipa-Moiru - Feb. 29, 1924
Blow-Guns - Mar. 10, 1924
Mamu the Soothsayer - May 20, 1924
The Inca's Ransom - Jul. 10, 1924
The Trail Smellers - Dec. 20, 1924
The Courage Medicine - Jan. 10, 1925
Out of the Jungle - Mar. 30, 1925
Jungle Business - Jun. 10, 1925
The Jest of the Jungle - Aug. 20, 1925
He Shall Have Who Best Can Keep - Jan. 10, 1926
The Creek of the Poisonous Mist - Apr. 23, 1926
The King of the Black Water - Aug. 8, 1926
The Society of Condors - Apr. 1, 1927
Reward - Jun. 15, 1927
The Slave Runner - Apr. 1, 1930
The Ebony Juju - Jul. 15, 1930
The Lost End of Nowhere - Jan. 1, 1931
Quill Gold - Feb. 1, 1931
Unprofitable Ivory - Jun. 15, 1931
The Witch Casting - Nov. 1, 1931
Tiger's Orphan - Dec. 15, 1931
The Jungle Never Tells - Oct. 1, 1932
King's Sons - Mar. 1, 1933
Strangers of the Amulet - Apr. 15, 1933
The Ivory Killers - Jun. 1933
The Mad Hakim - Sep. 1933
Black Drums Talking - May 1934
Wardens of the Big Game - Apr. 15, 1935
Black Panther - May 1, 1935
The Fool Americano - May 1937
Nobody Kills Don Guzman - Nov. 1937
A Drum for a Warrior - Jan. 1938 / Mar. 1958
Free to Run - Jul. 1938
Big Jim's Way - Oct. 1938
A Man to Kill - Nov. 1938
Bahama Bottom - Jan. 1939
Badlands Trail - Mar. 1939
Slaves for Ethiopia - Jul. 1939
The Crocodile Pool - Oct. 1939
Strong As Gorillas - Apr. 1940
Blood and Steel - Jun. 1940
The Tenderfoot of Nairobi - Dec. 1940
Tarred with the Trader Brush - Feb. 1941
A Soldier Salutes the Uniform - Jun. 1941
The Pied Piper of Nairobi - Nov. 1941
Mountain Promise - Aug. 1942
At Long Range - Apr. 1944
Lion Trouble - Jan. 1945
Blood From the Blue - Apr. 1945
Death Penalty - Sep. 1945
Potent Paint - Nov. 1945
The Old Oil - Feb. 1946
Job Across Jordan - Jul. 1946
Xipe the Skinless - May 1947
Blood for the Hawk - May 1952
The Devil's Son - Aug. 1955 (posthumous)
ALL-AROUND MAGAZINE (S&S)
The Monkey God (ss) - Jul. 1916
ALL-STORY WEEKLY
The Curse of His Castle - Aug. 16, 1915
"Y'Gotta Show Me!" - Apr. 8, 1916
ARGOSY
Heart of the Hillman - Aug. 1915
The Flying Chance - Dec. 29, 1917
A Matter of Class - Feb. 16, 1918
The White Test - Mar. 1, 1919
McGrath's Job - Aug. 23, 1919
"Jehannum" Smith - Apr. 5, 1919
Durga The Unapproachable - May 17, 1919
Worshippers Of Boondi - Nov. 8, 1919
Tact and Diplomacy - Dec. 13, 1919
The High Flier - Mar. 27, 1920
Naked Men of Naga (s-3)
- Apr. 17, 1920
- Apr. 24, 1920
- May 1, 1920
Reptile Man (s-3)
- Feb. 4, 1933
- Feb. 11, 1933
- Feb. 18, 1933
The Safari of Danger - Feb. 10, 1934
Zimwi Crater - Aug. 11, 1934
Pearly Depths - Nov. 17, 1934
Diver's Chance - Dec. 22, 1934
The Ghost Tiger of Everest - Jan. 30, 1937
COMPLETE STORIES (S&S)
Pacifist (ss) - Dec. 15, 1933
FANTASTIC ADVENTURES
Projection From Epsilon - Mar. 1953
ILLUSTRATED SUNDAY MAGAZINE
Everett, Commissioner of Justice - Jan. 3, 1915
Miracle of Kali - Apr. 18, 1915
Hookey Handicap - May 21, 1916
(some of these titles may be non-fiction)
JUNGLE STORIES
The Rat of Cayenne - Dec. 1931
Matto Grosso Fury - Summer, 1950
MUNSEY'S MAGAZINE
Sanford Hale, Aviator - Oct. 1918
(may be non-fiction)
PEOPLE'S MAGAZINE (S&S)
The Wood Devil Thing (ss) - Jan. 1916
The Desi Wallah (ss) - Feb. 1916
MacNeill's Job (ss) - Mar. 1916
The Spring Running (ss) - May 1916
The Soul Winder (ss) - Jun. 1916
The Rajah's Royalty (ss) - Jul. 1916
The Lord of Elephants (ss) - Aug. 1916
The Leopard Trap (ss) - Sep. 1916
The Spoils of War (ss) - Oct. 1916
The Unwilling Passenger (ss) - Nov. 1916
His Just Recompense (ss) - Dec. 1916
The Weeping Buddha (ss) - Feb. 1917
The Mud Fort o'Tsonga (ss) - Mar. 1917
The Last of the Monopolies (ss) - Apr. 1917
became: PEOPLE'S FAVORITE MAGAZINE
Consider the Camel (ss) - Apr. 25, 1919
THE POPULAR MAGAZINE (S&S)
The Man Who Didn't Care (ss) - Feb. 20, 1919
SATURDAY EVENING POST
Gun Without Guilt - Jan. 11, 1935
In Love and War - Apr. 25, 1936
Pacifist - Jun. 29, 1936
SEA STORIES (S&S)
The Unwilling Passenger (ss) - Feb. 1925
(reprint from People's Magazine, Nov., 1916)
SHORT STORIES
Missing in M'Bweno - May 10, 1945
Burma Pilot - Sep. 10, 1945
STRANGE TALES OF MYSTERY AND TERROR
Dr. Muncing, Exorcist - Sep. 1931
The Case of the Sinister Shape - Mar. 1932
(Dr. Muncing)
WEIRD TALES
The Hand of Saint Ury - Jan. 1951
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B - Magazine Articles:
ADVENTURE
The Much Maligned Army Ant - Mar. 30, 1924
Adventure's Abyssinian Expedition
- I Jul. 1, 1927
- II Sep. 1, 1927
- III Oct. 1, 1927
- IV Feb. 15, 1928
- V Apr. 15, 1928
- VI May 1, 1928
- VII May 15, 1928
The Lions That Stopped a Railroad - Mar. 1938
The Devil's Son - Aug. 1955 (posthumous)
SATURDAY EVENING POST
King of Kings - Sep. 21, 1935
(possible article about Ethiopia's Emperor Haille Selassie)
TRAVEL MAGAZINE
Abyssinia, Woman's Marital Utopia (w-Helen MacCreagh) - Sep. 1928
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C - Books:
1 - Big Game in the Shan States. 1909
[Listed in Who's Who. Cannot find publication or copyright data]
2 - White Waters and Black. New York: The Century Co., 1926, 42 photos.
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1926. (Cheap ed.)
London: The Century Co., 1926.
Leipzig, Germany: F. A. Brockhaus, 1926 (as Weisswasser und Schwarzwasser.)
New York: Doubleday & Co., 1961 (Paper ed.)
- [Second edition: University of Chicago Press, 1985, contains Foreword by George B. Schaller and "A Biographical Note" by Bob McKnight, which originally appeared in The American Museum of Natural History, copyright 1961. This paperbound edition reprinted 2001.]
3 - The Inca's Ransom. New York: Chelsea House, 1926.
(ADVENTURE, July 10, 1924)
4 - Poisonous Mist. New York: Chelsea House, 1927.
(ADVENTURE, April 23, 1926, as "The Creek of the Poisonous Mist.")
5 - The Last of Free Africa (New York: The Century Co.,
1928. 95 photographs. Introduction by Rexford D. Barton.
London: The Century Co., 1928.
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1928 (Cheap ed.)
[Second edition: D. Appleton-Century Inc., 1935, additional Foreword and Epilogue by author.]
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D - About Gordon MacCreagh
(See additional articles in 1985/2001 edition of "White Waters And Black," University of Chicago Press.)
Devil-Devil Dance Caught By Camera / Gordon MacCreagh, Back From the Amazon, Describes Indian Torture Ceremony.
THE NEW TORK TIMES, August 24, 1922, pg 15.
Devil Dancers: Strange Customs of Tribe Discovered in Amazon Basin by American Expedition--Weird Rite to Drive Away "Evil Spirit."
THE NEW YORK TIMES, September 3, 1922, Section 7, pg 1. With photo.
Indian Pictures Shown.
THE NEW YORK TIMES, May 16, 1923, pg 22.
Review of White Waters and Black.
THE NEW YORK TIMES Book Review, November 21, 1926, page 11.
To Seek Ark of Covenant.
THE NEW YORK TIMES, Jan 1, 1927, pg 16.
Explorer in Abyssinia to Use Short Wave Lengths.
THE NEW YORK TIMES, February 20, 1927, pg 20.
The Men Who Make The Argosy: Gordon MacCreagh.
THE ARGOSY, February 18, 1933.
Helping the Farmer. (Letter to the Editor)
THE NEW YORK TIMES, July 28, 1933, pg 14.
An Informing Book About Ethiopia.
THE NEW YORK TIMES, September 8, 1935, Section 7, pg 8.
Conquest By Italy In 6 Weeks Forecast: MacCreagh, Emperor's Adviser, Says She Will Win All Objectives by Then.
THE NEW YORK TIMES, October 4, 1935, pg 3.
Citations of Merit. (Letter to Editor, by Elmer Davis)
THE NEW YORK TIMES, May 11, 1936, pg 18.
Who's Who In America. (in 2 editions: pre-1933, pre-1950
- check for dates)
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Posted by ds at December 2, 2002 03:37 PM
