May 14, 2025 and one hundred years ago on this day in 1925, Edgar Rice Burroughs submitted “The Red Hawk” to “Argosy All-Story Weekly.” The cover for the first installment was by Stockton Mulford and Roger B. Morrison did one interior illustration for each of the three installments.
Publishing details, reviews and illustrations: https://www.erbzine.com/mag7/0767.html
The final third of The Moon Maid trilogy featured an American occupied by the invaders from the moon and their lackies. An American resistance exists, living like Native Americans, fighting to survive, and to drive out the turncoat earthlings and their masters. This dystopian tale seems similar to the plot of the film, Red Dawn, which was filmed around Las Vegas, New Mexico. It is similar, but ERB wrote his story sixty years earlier.
The fictional 100 word drabble for today, "The Good Fight," was inspired by the American resistance in the story, “The Red Hawk.”
Julian, the leader of the American resistance to the occupying forces rescued Bethelda, a woman captured by them.
He said, “My men and I will drive them into the Pacific. I’ll never rest until the last one drowns in the ocean.”
She asked, “Why fight? You could hide safely in the mountains and deserts. Most people are content to live in servitude, trading freedom for their lives.”
“A famous man said, “Give me liberty or give me death.”
“These people, no matter how oppressed, won’t take up arms. Why fight for people who won’t fight for themselves?”
“Because someone must!”
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