Little was found on Mr. Horton, and that was from the archives the New Yorker Magazine  October 28,  1939 volume 15 issue #2.   It seems they were doing “slice of life” stories and Marc Jones must have been entranced by the various people they interviewed.  As for the Captain, he is a rather askew Bucket with a Neptunian handle, appropriately enough.  For Indian ancestry he gets the rather unique Ascendant of “Zuni Sun Worshipers,” that is about a return to nature and a simpler and uncomplicated time and place. Our header image is probably what the New Yorker writers…