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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Wheeler, Edward L. (Edward Lytton), 1854 or 1855-1885. Deadwood Dick library
- Beadle's half dime library
- Beadle's frontier series (Westbrook)
- Speaker series
- Beadle's dime novels
- Early western life series.
- Beadle's dime biographical library
- Munro's ten cent novels.
- De Witt's ten cent romances.
- New York detective library.
- Jesse James stories.
- Morrison's sensational series.
- Leisure hour library
- Arm chair library
- Wild West weekly; a magazine containing stories, sketches etc. of western life.
- Old Broadbrim weekly.
- Nugget library.
- Old Sleuth weekly.
- Nick Carter stories.
- New Nick Carter weekly.
- Chimney corner series
- War library.
- Secret service: Old and Young King Brady, detectives.
- Pluck and luck; complete stories of adventure.
- Fame and fortune weekly.
- Beadle's boy's library of sport, story and adventure.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Dime novels.
- Pulp literature, American.
- Western fiction.
- Adventure stories, American.
- Contents:
- A New York boy among the Indians / George L. Aiken (Beadle's frontier series, no. 29, 1908)
- The boy scouts, or the hunt of the Pottawatomies / Mahlon A. Brown
- Red rattlesnake, the Pawnee or life on the border / Capt. Latham C. Carleton (Beadle's frontier series, no. 63, 1909)
- Deadwood Dick's big deal or the gold brick of Oregon / Edward L. Wheeler (Beadle's frontier series, no. 30, 1883)
- American speaker (Beadle's dime speaker series, no. 1, 1863)
- National speaker (Beadle's dime speaker series, no. 2, 1863)
- Star eyes (Beadle's dime novels no. 89, 1865)
- Patriotic speaker (Beadle's dime speaker series no. 3, 1863)
- Trail of gold; or, Sure Shot Sam / Charles Wilbur Keatinge (Montana Charley) (Early western series, no. 5, 1928)
- The maid of esopus or the trials and triumphs of the revolution / N.C. Iron (Beadle's dime novels, no. 22, 1861)
- Harry hardskull / Samuel Fletcher (Beadle's frontier series no. 50, 1909)
- Standard dialogues, speakers and handbooks (Beadle and Adams)
- Oklahoma outlaws / Richard S. Graves
- The custer battle / White Eagle
- Half dime tales of the late rebellion
- Soldier and sailors, 1868.
- American pioneer life / Dr. Frank P. O'Brien, 1920
- Jolly speaker (Beadle's dime speaker series, no. 22, 1874)
- The marquis Lafayette (Beadle's biographical library, no. 10, 1861)
- Gipsy Jack or the gentleman robber of king's bridge (Munro's ten cent novels, no.60, 1865)
- Deadwood Dick jr. or the sign of the crimson crescent / Ed. L. Wheeler (Beadle's frontier series, no.28, 1886)
- Standard speaker (Beadle's dime speaker series, no. 7)
- Juvenile speaker (Beadle's dime speaker series, no. 9, 1868)
- First love a story of women's heart / Eugene Sue
- The true story of Wild Bill Hickok / J. W. Buel, 1946
- The Pirate of the gulf / Colonel Prentiss Ingraham
- The James boys
- Nathan Todd or the fate of the Sioux captive (Beadle's dime novels, no. 18, 1860)
- The king of the prairie or the trail of the bloodhounds / The Old Trapper (De Witt's ten cent romances, no. 118)
- The Chippewa guide or the settler's cabin / Sandy Griswold
- The nickel library, 1872
- The masked hunter / Frederick Whittaker, 1908.
- The James boys in no man's land or the bandit king's last ride / D.W. Stevens (The New York detective library, no.438)
- Jesse James the outlaw / W.B. Lawson (The Jesse James stories, no. 1, 1938)
- Frank James on the trail (Morrison's sensational series, volume 1, no. 46, 1882)
- Clue of the Friday eyes
- Expose detective cases
- American pioneer life / Dr. Frank O'Brien
- The corsair's captive / Harry Danforth (The leisure hour library, no. 49)
- The secret of apache canyon / Richard Telfair
- Mr. Gilfil's love story / George Eliot (The arm chair library, no. 20)
- The love that saved him / Mrs. Ann S. Stephens (The leisure hour library, no. 37)
- Young wild west and Mexican Matt or routing the rawhide rangers / An Old Scout (Wild West weekly, no. 185, 1906).
- Old broadbrim tracking the dead or the hidden battery of doom (Old broad brim weekly, no. 41, 1903)
- Diamond Dick's dummy or the yellers of Yuba / W. B. Lawson (The nugget library, no. 88)
- Deadwood dick, the prince of the road or the black rider of the black hills / Edward L. Wheeler (The deadwood dick library no. 1, volume 1)
- The risen dead / Florence Marryat (The arm chair library, no.64)
- Old reliable / Frank Tousey
- Lost cause : A Confederate war record
- The return of Old Sleuth, the detective, or, The great Philadelphia mystery : a tale of the most weird and thrilling strangeness / "Old Sleuth" (Old Sleuth Weekly, no. 1)
- The duplicate night or Nick Carter's double reflection (Nick Carter stories, 1915)
- Nick Carter and the prince of stranglers or the black cord of the league (New Nick Carter weekly, no. 345)
- The figure eight / Mrs. M. V. Victor (The chimney corner series, no 137)
- Blood and thunder, or, Dime novels of the 80's and 90's / Floyd L. Beagle (Fame and fortune weekly, no. 754, 1920)
- Buffalo Bill : a souvenir of the great scout, c1918
- Captain Montague, the Confederate freelance / Captain John W. Southard (The war library, no. 220, volume 7)
- The Bradys at gold lake or solving a Klondike mystery / A New York detective (Secret service, no, 1077).
- Nick Carter's life chase or shot from ambush (New Nick Carter weekly, no. 350)
- From cabin to cabinet or the pluck of a plow boy / HK Shackleford (Pluck and luck complete stories of adventure, no. 1140)
- Tipped off by telegraph or shaking up the wall street bears (Fame and fortune weekly, no. 1118)
- Will the waif (Fame and fortune weekly, no. 754)
- Nick Carter at Mount Vernon or the old rabbit's paw (Nick Carter Weekly, No. 297, 1902)
- Fred Fearnot at canyon castle or entertaining his friends / Hal Standish (Work and win, no. 960)
- Wrecked in the gulf or the gold of the old buccaneers (Fame and fortune weekly, no. 756, 1920)
- Fred Fearnot and the drunkards son or a hot fight against rum / Hal Standish (Work and Win, no. 1108, 1920)
- Driven to the sea or the sailor's secret / Captain Tho's H.Wilson (Pluck and luck, no. 341)
- The star journal no. 507, New York, November 25, 1879 [includes Bufalo Bill, the buckskin king]
- Roving Joe / A. H. Post (Beadle's boys library of sport story and adventure, volume 1, no. 7)
- A rolling stone / Wm. R. Eyster (Beadle's boys library of sport story and adventure, volume 1, no. 13).
- California Joe / Colonel Prentiss Ingraham (Beadle's boys library of sport story and adventure, volume 3, no. 54)
- Pawnee Bill's historic wild west
- The Bradys and the dynamite hang or ten hours of deadly peril (Secret service, 1922)
- The stolen bonds or how wall street will made his mark (Fame and fortune weekly, no. 1186, 1928).
- Notes:
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of Roland D. Sawyer, Jr., 1974.
- Cited in:
- Johannsen, Albert. The house of Beadle and Adams.
- OCLC:
- 934435369
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