Outing (sometimes titled The Outing Magazine ) was a late 19th- and early 20th-century American magazine covering a variety of sporting activities . It began publication in 1882 as the Wheelman "an illustrated magazine of cycling literature and news" and had four title changes before ceasing publication in 1923. It was based in Boston.
15-705: Samuel McClure edited the Wheelman for Colonel Albert Pope , Pope Manufacturing Company for bicycles for two years. Bicycling was the first outdoor sport to seize the Americans. Suddenly bicycling was all the rage. In 1884 it was called Outing and the Wheelman: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine of Recreation . Thomas Stevens became a "special correspondent" that year. The magazine first published Jack London 's novel White Fang in serial form. Frederic Remington submitted commissioned drawings of
30-449: A way to encourage new fiction writers. The magazine's staff learned the author's identity only once they accepted or rejected a manuscript. The last issue of The American Magazine was displayed on newsstands in August 1956. In 1934, The American Magazine ran a story called "Uncle Sam Grows Younger" that praised Alger Hiss : "In his twenties, he is one of the men chiefly responsible for
45-927: The American Illustrated Magazine (1905–1906). The magazine was published through August 1956. Under the magazine's original title, Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly , it had begun to be published in 1876 and was renamed Leslie's Monthly Magazine in 1904, and then was renamed again as Leslie's Magazine in 1905. From September 1905, through May 1906, it was entitled the American Illustrated Magazine ; then subsequently shortened as The American Magazine until publication ceased in 1956. It kept continuous volume numbering throughout its history. In June 1906, muckraking journalists Ray Stannard Baker , Lincoln Steffens and Ida M. Tarbell left McClure's to help create The American Magazine . An "Editorial Announcement" published in 1907 led with Tarbell's coverage of tariff policy. Baker contributed articles using
60-861: The McClure Syndicate , the first U.S. newspaper syndicate, and published in Sunday newspapers, containing serials of books, recipes and reviews. He founded McClure's Magazine in 1893 and ran it successfully until 1911 when poor health and financial reorganization forced him out (and many of his writers had defected to form their own magazine). McClure's Magazine published influential pieces by respected journalists and authors including Jack London , Ida Tarbell , Upton Sinclair , Burton J. Hendrick , Rudyard Kipling , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , Robert Louis Stevenson , Willa Cather , and Lincoln Steffens . Through his magazine, he introduced Dr. Maria Montessori 's new teaching methods to North America in 1911. McClure
75-554: The Old West . Outing Publishing Company published Westerns, romances, and outdoor books. It was active in book publishing from 1905 to 1918, when the book list was sold to Macmillan . This sports magazine or journal-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . See tips for writing articles about magazines . Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page . Samuel McClure Samuel Sidney McClure (February 17, 1857 – March 21, 1949)
90-495: The greatest instinctive editors ever to function in the US, and one of the most wretched businessmen." Lyon suggests that he had a manic-depressive personality, combining enthusiasm, tenacity, and a remarkable talent for predicting public responses. He favored Western writers, and especially muckraking articles that made his magazine famous. On the other hand, he was unstable with a hair-trigger impatience that alienated many staffers. Always in
105-543: The magazine's editors, Willa Cather . McClure created a whole new form of writing for his journalists that we still use today. Instead of demanding that his writers give him articles for his paper immediately, he would give them all the time they needed to do extensive research on their topics. Rudyard Kipling was one writer who rejected McClure's offer of a long-term contract, quoting as justification Ecclesiasticus (Chapt. 33, verse 21): "As long as thou livest and hast breath in thee, give not thyself over to any". Kipling
120-430: The pseudonym David Grayson . Under John Sanborn Phillips , who served as editor until 1915, the monthly magazine departed somewhat from the muckraking style and focused on human interest stories, social issues and fiction. Initially published by his Phillips Publishing Company of Springfield , Ohio , it later was taken over by Crowell Publishing Company in 1911, and later merged with Collier's . The American Magazine
135-520: The red, he sold first his book publishing house, then his nationwide newspaper syndicate, and finally his own magazine. The American Magazine The American Magazine was a periodical publication founded in June 1906, a continuation of failed publications purchased a few years earlier from publishing mogul Miriam Leslie . It succeeded Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly (1876–1904), Leslie's Monthly Magazine (1904–1905), Leslie's Magazine (1905) and
150-534: Was a business partner of Frank Nelson Doubleday in Doubleday & McClure, ancestor to today's Doubleday imprint. After McClure left Doubleday, he established the publisher McClure, Phillips and Company with John Sanborn Phillips . Phillips left to purchase The American Magazine in 1906 and McClure sold his book publishing operations to Doubleday, Page in 1908. After he was ousted in 1911, McClure's Magazine serialized his autobiography, ghost-written by one of
165-695: Was also present when McClure began to contemplate the launch of a new literary magazine. He recalled in his autobiography: He entered [my home in Vermont], alight with the notion for a new Magazine to be called 'McClure's.' I think the talk lasted some twelve—or it may have been seventeen—hours, before the notion was fully hatched out. He died in New York City in 1949, at the age of 92. He is buried next to his wife Harriet at Hope Cemetery in Galesburg, Illinois . According to his biographer Peter Lyon, McClure was, "one of
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#1732858057108180-572: Was an American publisher who became known as a key figure in investigative , or muckraking , journalism. He co-founded and ran McClure's Magazine from 1893 to 1911, which ran numerous exposées of wrongdoing in business and politics, such as those written by Ida Tarbell , Ray Stannard Baker , and Lincoln Steffens . The magazine ran fiction and nonfiction by the leading writers of the day, including Sarah Orne Jewett , Mark Twain , William Dean Howells , Joel Chandler Harris , Jack London , Stephen Crane , William Allen White and Willa Cather . He
195-458: Was born to an Ulster Scots family in County Antrim in what is now Northern Ireland , and emigrated with his widowed mother to Indiana when he was nine years old. He grew up in near poverty on a farm and graduated from Valparaiso High School in 1875. He worked his way through Knox College , where he co-founded its student newspaper, and later moved to New York City. In 1884, he established
210-630: Was published by Crowell-Collier until it folded in 1956. With the changes in 1915, John M. Siddall (1915–23) was appointed as editor of the periodical, which expanded its market considerably by concentrating on a female readership. The cover of the September 1917 issue announced: "This Magazine's Circulation Has Doubled in 20 Months." The September 1922 cover stated circulation had reached 1.8 million. Merle Crowell served as editor of The American Magazine from 1923 until 1929 when Sumner Blossom took over. Blossom, who had been editor of Popular Science ,
225-403: Was there for the last 27 years of the magazine's existence. Fictional serials and short stories were a popular feature, and the magazine published several winners of the O. Henry Awards . High-profile writers contributed articles on a variety of topics. During his editorship, Blossom adopted the unusual policy of hiding the author's name on all works of fiction during the selection process as
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