Alphabetically - Short Story Listing
(Jim
Kjelgaard)
This is a list of original
short stories with the earliest
published
date known. Later
printings are not included
either under the same name, or
the same story with a new
name (however the new name is
referenced). See the original
short story listing for a more
complete picture.
(Not
complete - Work in
progress)
by Gary L.
Charter 9-29-05
Abbey Holden as
Guide -
October 25, 1946, Short Stories
Adults Who Never Learn
Enough – April 1946, Rotarian
All My Friends
- 1948
All Wool--and a
River
Wide - June 28, 1941 - Argosy Weekly
Ambush at Two-Dog Rock –
December
25,1944, Short Stories
the Ambush of Hoe-Handle Charlie - September
1945,
Adventure Magazine
Animals Pull Their Rank
- September 1945, Coronet
Arbey
Holden Rides
Again - March 10, 1947, Short Stories
Backfire -
December 1940, Black
Mask
Barnyard Billy’s
Conscript
Army – 1940
Battle For Three
– June 1953, Texas Rangers
the Battle of Dabbit Run - March 9, 1940, Argosy
Weekly
Bear Dog -
April
8, 1939, Western Story Magazine (S&S)
Bear Tracks to Hell
- March 1941, New Western Magazine
Beaver Boomerang
– June 26,1943,
Western Story Magazine (S&S)
the Bee Hunter - March 18, 1939, Argosy-All
American Fiction
Beloved
Bums of the Black Hills - July 1958, Ford Times
Bighorn Challenge
– February 28 1942, Western Story
Magazine
the Big Trout and Yooley Drabner - January 1948, Sports
Afield
Billy Dancer’s Bull -
December 25, 1945, Short Stories
Bird In the Sky –
December
2,1939, Argosy Weekly
the Black Buck of Gaswell
Hollow - July 1953, Texas Rangers
the Black Horse – July 8,1939,
Collier's
the Black Horse same as Rebel Horse
Black Ice - August
1949, Adventure Magazine
Black Terror -
April
17, 1943, Western Story Magazine(S&S)
Blind Murder -
October
1942, Phantom Detective
Blind Trap -
August-September 1949, Western Story Magazine
Blood Debt –
September
12 1942, Western Story Magazine(S&S)
Blood on the Ice
– March 1947, Boys’ Life
the Bow, a Hunting Weapon - December 1941, Esquire, by Jim Kjelgaard
and Syl LeFebre
a Brand for Pete - March
1949, 10
Story
Breed of the Blue Hen
- April 1946, Adventure Magazine
the Buck at Cross Lake - January 1948, Adventure
Magazine
the Buck-Baiting of Charlie Hoe Handle - March
1946,
Adventure Magazine
Bullet Blackmail
- October 26,1940, Western Story Magazine
Bullet Boomerang
- 1941
Bushwhack King on
His
Backtrail – same as Ride a Packhorse
Can Animals Outwit Men
- May 1945, Coronet
Cap Gitchie’s
Rooster
same as Cock O’ the River
Cap’s Cache –
January 1943, Bulletman
the Captains Pass - September 21, 1940, Argosy
Weekly
Carnival At Toomey
Creek -
August 1950, Adventure
Magazine
Caribou Trek – April
26 1941, Western Story Magazine
a Case in Point – January 1949, Argosy
Weekly
Chanu - March
1946, Weird
Tales
Charlie Hoe Handle and
the Fifty-Buck Beaver –
February 1947, Adventure Magazine
Charlie Hoe Handle
and
the Great Big Bass –
December 1946, Adventure Magazine
Charley Hoe Handle
and
the Loony Trout –
September 1946, Adventure Magazine
Charley Hoe Handle and
the Reluctant Muskie –
December 1945, Adventure Magazine
Charlie Hoe Handle
and
the Spirit Wolf –
May 1947, Adventure Magazine
Charley Hoe Handle and
the Weasel’s Chance –
December 1948, Adventure Magazine
Charley Hoe Handle and
the Witches ‘ Fire –
August 1948, Adventure Magazine
Charley Hoe Handle Gets
Caught –
January 1950, Adventure Magazine
Charley Hoe Handle
Goes
Native –
June 1950, Adventure Magazine
Charley Hoe
Handle’s
Bear Hunt –
October 1950, Adventure Magazine
Charley Hoe Handle
‘s
Chicken Party –
May 1948, Adventure Magazine
Charley Hoe Handle Vs.
Man’s Best Friend -
August 1947, Adventure Magazine
Chatterbox
- October1951, Boys' Life
Cheena - November
10, 1945, Short Stories
Clubfoot - the
Killer
- 1941
Cobwebs in the
Corner
- May 25, 1947, Short Stories
Code of the
Underworld –
1941
Code of the
Underworld
same as Curse of the Beaver
Collect One Pelt
- December 28, 1940, Western Story Magazine
Cock O’ the River
- November 1946, Adventure Magazine
Cock O’ the River
- same as Cap Gitchie’s Rooster
Cougar Trail –
February
13,1943, Western Story Magazine
the Courting of Hoyt Magloon - August 25, 1946, Short
Stories
(Croatan - in Buckskin
Brigade by Jim Kjelgaard)
Cross Your Bridges -
April 19, 1941, Argosy Weekly
Crying Hound -
August
19, 1939, Argosy Weekly
Curse of the Beaver
- July 1941, Black Mask volume 24 #3
Curse of the Beaver –
same as Code of the Underworld
Danger in the
Wind
- February 21, 1942, Argosy Weekly
Dangerous Journey -
Dangerous Journey -
January 1950, Boys’ Life
Dangerous Journey
– same as Return of the Coyote
Dead Man’s Dogs -
July 1943, New Western Magazine
Dead Wrong –
same as Ride a Pack Horse
Death
In Every Shadow - July 1949, American Legion
Death on the Hoof
- December 1941, Big-Book Detective
Magazine volume 1 #1
Death's Fangs
Open
- November 14, 1942, Western Story
Magazine
Desert Treachery -
July
18, 1942, Western Story Magazine
the Desperate Man - October 30, 1943, Liberty
Magazine
Detour to Death –
1942
Doctor
of Birds - January 1949, Pageant
(digest)
Do Deer Scare Easily?
- February 1948, Sports Afield
(a Dog Remembers - in Two
Dogs and a Horse by Jim Kjelgaard)
Dog Sense - 1944
Dollar-A-Mile Horse -
January,1948,
New Western Magazine
Don’t Be Afraid
of the Short Story - 1945
the Duck Blind deal - July 1947, Sports Afield
Ducks on Windy Slough –
January
7, 1939, Argosy Weekly
the Duel - June 1942, Adventure Magazine
Dusky - February
10, 1946, Short Stories
East of the
Border
- June 16, 1945, Liberty Magazine (Canada)
the Education of Johnny Bing - September 11,
1943, Liberty
Magazine
Empire Before Him
- June 7, 1941, Argosy Weekly
End of the Trail -
in Buckskin
Brigadeby Jim Kjelgaard
A Fair Bet same as Pedro The
Gambler
the Fangs of Tsan-lo - November 1945, Weird Tales
Fantastic Dr. Nature
- February 1945, Coronet
the Fawn in the Forest - May, 1949, Blue Book
the Fifth Friend – December 25,1946,
Short
Stories
the Fire God’s Kindling - August 16, 1941, Argosy
Weekly
Fire Watch
(part 1)
- April 1944, Boys' Life
Fire Watch
(part 2)
- May 1944, Boys' Life
Fire Watch
(part 3)
- June 1944, Boys' Life
Fire Watch
(part 4)-
July 1944, Boys' Life
First Catch Your Beaver
- August 3, 1940, Argosy Weekly
the Fisherman of Clam Creek – February 25, 1945,
Short Stories
Fish For A Dollar
- May 4, 1940, Argosy Weekly
Fishin’ Fool - June
1948, Western
Story Magazine (S&S)
Forest of Fear -
November
29, 1941, Western Story Magazine
For
Love of a Wildling - December 1940, Rangeland Romances
For You, Valkyrie
- 1942
the Fork in the Trail - July 1943, Capper's Farmer
Four-Footed G Men
- August 1950, Boys’ Life
Fox in the Bag -
July 13, 1940, Argosy Weekly
Freebooter – May
1951, Boys’ Life
(Freight for Santa Fe - in
Buckskin
Brigade by Jim Kjelgaard)
From Misty Swamp
- June 29, 1940 Argosy Weekly
Fugitive of Furnace
Flats - July,1943, 10 Story
Western Magazine
George and the
Retriever
- October 1947, Adventure
Magazine
Ghost Dog -
February
15, 1941, Western Story Magazine (S&S)
Gold Is Where You Find
It - March 1,1941, Western Story
Magazine
Gone to the Dogs
- 1958 article about anthologies
Good Leather –
January 25, 1941, Argosy Weekly
the Grass Grows Again - February 24, 1940, Argosy
Weekly
the Gray Buck - April 13,1940, Western
Story
Magazine (S&S)
Gunsmoke
Cornerstone
- 1943
the Gun Smoke Herd
Gunstop Canyon -
same as the Lieutenant’s Horse
Hangmans Mark –
October,1940, Black Mask
Hunting the Haunt
Fox in Along Story Trails,
Ginn Basic Reader,
by Ginn and Co., 1962
Hair
Over the Sights - January 1934, Fur-Fish-Game
Headwater Tryst -
September
18,1943, Western Story
Magazine (S&S)
Hermit of the Yagitak -
January 25, 1941, Western Story
Magazine (S&S)
Hitchhike For Punch
- December 1945, Coronet
Hoof-and-Fang Fury
- February 1949, 10 Story Western
the Horse Hunters - November 10,1942, Short Stories
Horses for the Calvary
- March 22, 1941, Argosy Weekly
Hounded –
August,1941, Black
Mask
a Hound for Sleeping - April 1947, Adventure
Magazine
How Animals Fight For
Survival - February 1946, Coronet
How Animals Harness Their
Fear - March, 1945, Coronet
How
Some People Make a Living - 1946
How Wary is Your Game - January 1955, American Rod and Gun
How to Get a Plot (Joke) –
October 1943, Writer’s Digest
How to Gun a
Buck - September 1955, American
Rod
and Gun
Hunt For Big
Trout - March 1955, Sports
Afield
Hunter's
Moon - November 1946, Argosy
Weekly
Incident at
Bad Water
- September 1951, .44 Western Magazine
I Never Remember a Face
- The Phantom Detective, June 1941
In Like A Lion -
May 24, 1941, Argosy Weekly
the Invader - Fall,1944, North-West
Romances
“I,”
Said the Sparrow - June 3, 1939, Argosy-All
American
Fiction
I Shot An Arrow -
December 21, 1940, Argosy Weekly
It’s the Craziest Fishing
- May 1959, Arizona Highways
It Takes
a
Skunk To Catch a Skunk - November 3,1945, Liberty
the Jaguar’s Heart - same as the Tiger’s
Heart
Jasper and the Criminal –
March 1951, Adventure
Magazine
the Jinx of Wrong-Way Charlie - June 1945, Western
Story
Magazine
Journey Upstream
- August 15, 1942, Western Story
Magazine (S&S)
the Keeper of the Refuge - October 25 1945, Short
Stories
Killer for a Day
– April, 1942, Detective Short Stories
Killer's
Trail - 1942
Killing's an Easy
Thing - January 1,1944, Liberty
King
of Cardonga - 1941
Kinitak Killer -
1940
(the Lake and the Lonely Exiles - in Two
Dogs and a Horse
by Jim Kjelgaard)
Larrigan
Joe’s
Poaching Ring – June 1950, Short Stories
Last Battle –
November
1947, Argosy Weekly
the Last Elk - August 1939, Country Gentleman
Magazine
the Last Herd - November 16, 1940, Western
Story Magazine
(S&S)
the Last Trek - October 25, 1948, Short Stories
a Lesson for the Warden - November
25, 1944, Liberty Magazine
Letters From Elizabeth
- April 1952, Coronet
the Lieutenant’s Horse - May 25, 1940, Argosy
Weekly
the Lieutenant’s Horse - same as Gunstop Canyon
the Light In The Window - January 11, 1941, Argosy
Weekly
the Little Blue Lake – December 10, 1944,Short
Stories
a Little Knowledge –
December
1949, Big-Book Western
Lord of the
Jungle - same as the Tiger’s Heart
Lost Trail
Drive -
May 1947, Western Story Magazine
(S&S)
Lynx Kittens Must Eat
– December 1940, Ace High Western
Stories,
vol. 2, #4
Magpie Circle –
Spring 1945, North-West
Romances
Make ‘Em Plausible -
November,1945, Writer magazine
Man Enough -
January 1946, Western
Story Magazine (S&S)
the Man They Couldn’t Break – July 1942, Black
Mask
the Man Who Told the Truth - July 1946, Weird Tales
a Matter of Morale -
October
24,1942, Liberty Magazine
Mechanization of Charley
Hoe Handle - October 1948,
Adventure Magazine
(the Medicine Bag - in Buckskin
Brigadeby Jim Kjelgaard)
Meeting On The Ice
- May 1949, Adventure Magazine
Men Walk
Alone
- September 1945, Esquire Magazine
Meteorologists -
Furred
and Feathered - May 1946,
Boy's
Life
Midnight
- December 22, 1945, Liberty Magazine
Midnight
- Fall 1975, Liberty Magazine
Monarch of the Crags
- June 29, 1940, Western Story
Magazine (S&S)
a Month of Madness - May 10, 1942,Short
Stories
the Moon of Slatted Ribs - Jan 1949, Adventure
Magazine
the Moose of Westsmith Creek - Spring 1949,
North-West
Romances
Mountain Men -
February
22, 1941, Argosy Weekly
Mountain Monarch -
January 10, 1942, Western Story
Magazine (S&S)
Mudhole Pilot -
February
10, 1940, Argosy Weekly
My Father’s Collie -
1961
a Narrow Escape - January 1949, Western
Story Magazine (S&S)
a Naturalist’s Nightmare - July 1945, Coronet
Nature’s Federation of
Labor - July 1945, Coronet, Page
131
Nature’s Navigators -
June, 1945, Coronet
Nemesis of the Northland
– April 4,1942, Western Story Magazine
(S&S)
Nemesis of the Wild
– January 16, 1943, Western Story
Magazine (S&S)
Night Hunter -
November
1944, Western Story Magazine (S&S)
Night Ride - March
10, 1946, Short Stories
Night Sounds -
December
25, 1942, Short Stories
the Night the Leaves Rustled - February
1946, Boys'
Life
(No Retreat for a Cat -
in Fawn in the Forest by Jim
Kjelgaard)
North Of The Jinx
- November 18, 1939, ArgosyWeekly
(the Not-So-Tranquil Pool - in Fawn
in the Forest by Jim Kjelgaard)
Of the People
– February 1951, Blue
Book Magazine
Of the River and Uncle
Pidcock - November 1948,
Adventure Magazine
Old Clumsy Paws - August 1937,
Fur-Fish-Game
Old Dog’s Tricks
- May 31, 1941, Argosy Weekly
Old Man of Creek Bend
- 1948
Old Men's War -
April
10, 1943, Short Stories
Old Yellowfoot
- August 1947, Sports Afield
On
Custer's Trail - April 1937, Fur-Fish-Game
One American Family -
March
1946, Coronet - Dale
Only the Brave Can Be
Free - September 1941, Ace-High
Western Stories, Vol 4, #2
(the Opening Gate - in Buckskin
Brigade by Jim Kjelgaard)
Orphan of the Heights
- December 20, 1941, Western
Story Magazine (S&S)
Outcasts of the Desert
- August 15, 1953, Saturday
Evening Post
Partners in
Peril
- October 24,1942, Western Story
Magazine (S&S)
Pat’tidge Dog
– March 1944, Boys' Life
Peace
at Any Price - 1943
Pedro The Gambler -
May 1951, The
American Legion
Magazine
Pedro The Gambler
- same as A Fair Bet
Phantom of the Beeches
- March 10,1943, Short Stories
Pigeoner – March
1945, Adventure Magazine
Please Retrieve –
October 1947, Boys’ Life
Poaching Is Big Business
- 1950
the Pool at Gilbang – July 1947, Boys’ Life
the Pool of No Mercy -June 1948, Argosy Weekly
the Possum – April 1943, Western
Adventures
Push Your Wounded
Deer - December 1946, Sports Afield
a Quart of Water - March
1949, Western
Story Magazine (S&S)
the Rams With Great Horns - November 1951, Blue
Book
the Rattler, King of Killers - 1946
Rebel Horse -
same as the Black Horse
the Red Bull Bellows - June 8, 1940, Argosy Weekly
Repayment In Full
- February 1950, Coronet
Reputation – April
25, 1945, Short Stories
the Return - June 1949, Western Story Magazine
(S&S)
Vol 221, #2
the Return of the Coyote - in Fawn
in the Forest by Jim Kjelgaard
the Return of the Coyote - same as Dangerous
Journey
Ride a Pack Horse -
October 19, 1940, Argosy Weekly
Ride a Pack Horse -
same as Bushwhack King on His
Backtrail
Ride a Pack Horse –
same as Dead Wrong
Right as Rain -
June1946, Sports
Afield
River Man - November
5, 1938, Argosy-All American Fiction
River Purge – June
20,1942, Western Story Magazine (S&S)
Roll’em Over Gently –
1941
Roll’em Over Gently
– January 10,1942, Detective Fiction
Weekly,
vol.
149,#2
Routine Day - June
1948, American
Magazine
the Rugged Benches – May 17,1941, Detective Fiction Weekly
(the Rule of the Storm - in Fawn
in the Forest by Jim Kjelgaard)
Run, Sheep, Run -
May1944, Western
Story Magazine
Saddlefull of Dynamite -
July
27 1940, Western Story
Magazine (S&S)
Salvation Bullet
- February 7, 1942, Argosy Weekly
(Savage Trek - in Buckskin
Brigade by Jim Kjelgaard)
Second Shot –
August 1945, The
Shadow
Shadows in the Pool -
April 1942, The Elks Magazine
(the Sheltering Thicket - in Fawn
in the Forest by Jim Kjelgaard)
the Shepherd of the Slough – January1944, Adventure
Magazine
the Shot that Proved Fatal -
September 20,1947, Toronto Star
Newspaper
the Shooting of Frenchy Dumont -April 1949, Adventure
Magazine
Siwash Savvy -
1941
Six Grow Up -
September
1942, Thrilling Adventures
Sled Dog’s Savvy
- May 24 1941, Western Story Magazine
the Smartest Dog – October 1945, Boys’ Life
the Snow Devil - October 1942, Adventure Magazine
Some Must Die - May
1950, Adventure Magazine
Something to Talk With
- May 10, 1945, Short Stories
So Skulks the Weasel –
July
1940, Black Mask
Staff of Life -
July
1946, Adventure Magazine
Stalking
the
Seal - December 1940, Esquire
Starvation Island -
August
2,1941, Argosy Weekly
Strike It Rich -
November
15, 1947, Collier's
the Terrible Thirst – March 1954, Texas
Rangers
Terror of the Floes
– July 5, 1941, Western Story Magazine
Test of the Informer -
1943
Thanksgiving at Charley
Hoe Handle’s - November 1949,
Adventure Magazine
There Is No Story Formula
- 1950
the Thing From The Barrens - 1945
This Is How It Was
- 1959
Thundercloud Marsh
- April 13, 1940, Argosy Weekly
the Tiger’s Heart - no date
the Tiger’s Heart – April 1951, Esquire
Magazine
Tiger’s Heart
same as the Jaguar’s Heart
Tigre
-
part 1, January 1959, Boys' Life, (Later published as
a book Tigre
by Jim Kjelgaard, 1961)
Tigre -
part 2, February 1959, Boys' Life, (Later published as
a book Tigre by Jim Kjelgaard,
1961)
Tigre -
part 3, March 1959, Boys' Life, (Later published as
a book Tigre by Jim Kjelgaard,
1961)
Trader - May
1944, Argosy
Trail’s End - 1961, Collins
Boy’s Annual
Trapper’s Savvy –
February
19,1944, Western Story Magazine
(S&S)
(the Tree - in Buckskin
Brigade by Jim Kjelgaard)
(the Tree of Life - in Fawn in
the Forest by Jim Kjelgaard)
Trek from Texas – August 1941, Western
Adventures
Trial By Hot Lead
- August 1943, 10 Story Western
Trouble in the
Spruces
- October 18,1941, Western Story
Magazine(S&S)
Turkey in the Tangle -
October 1945, Adventure Magazine
Two For One - July,
27, 1940, Argosy Weekly
Ulysses Grant
Jones -
Serialized posthumously novel
-October 1960 , Boys’ Life
-November 1960 , Boys’ Life
-December 1960 , Boys’ Life
Longer version book published as
Ulysses and his Woodland Zoo by
Jim Kjelgaard
Uncle Lawrences's
Trout - June 1946, Country Gentleman
Under the
Killers’
Moon - February1941, Big-Book
Western
Unmarred - 1944
January 1944, Boys' Life
Up Where Death Begins
– April 1963, Adventure Magazine
War-Cub with the Colt
- Wary Smile - November 1941 - Western
Novel & Short Stories
War Country - May
3, 1941, Argosy Weekly
Warden Bait -
November
4, 1939, Argosy Weekly
Was Grandpa a Sheep?
- May 1946, Blue Book
Water Flows Downhill -
August 31, 1940, Argosy Weekly
the Water Hole - February 1954, Blue
Book
When the Pack Gathered
- August 10, 1940,
Argosy Weekly
Where the Wild Goats
Drink - May 18, 1940,
Argosy Weekly
the Whistling Witness - December 1944, 10-Story
Detective
White-Flag Friend -
in Outdoors Guide of Deep-River Jim ,
Ziff-Davis edition 1949,Didier Publishers
Whiteness of the Night –
March,1950, Boys' Life
Whiteness of the Night
- same as White Shadow on the Ice
White Shadow on the Ice
- same as Whiteness of the Night
White-Water Pitch –
October
30,1943, Western Story
Magazine (S&S)
Wild Bull of Timagour
- August 1942, Thrilling Adventures
the Wild Dog - March 10, 1945, Short
Stories
Wilderness Battle
Saga -November 1940, 10 Story Western
Wilderness Fury -
November 1948, American
Legion
Magazine
Wilderness Monarch
– October 17, 1942, Western Story Magazine
(Wilderness Road - in Buckskin
Brigade by Jim Kjelgaard)
Wilderness Road -
in Indians, Indians, Indians,
P R Fenner, ed., 1951
Wilderness Saga -
June 8, 1940, Western Story
Magazine (S&S)
the Wild One’s Red Revenge –August 1948,Western
Short Stories
the Wild Pack – March 10, 1944, Short
Stories
the Wild Swamp - July 25, 1945, Short Stories
William and the Contract
Buck - May 1952, Texas Rangers
Winged Killer of the
Forest - April 1945, Coronet
Winged Vengeance
– May 9, 1942, Western Story
the Wizard's Mark - 1943
You Can Not Drive
Deer - November 1946 Sports Afield
You Can't Catch a
Deer - November 1956 Sports Afield
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