Beadle's Half Dime Library: Seth Jones; or, The Captives of the Frontier

# Museum Catalog Description

This Beadle and Adams weekly publication spans multiple issues (1860–1883) featuring action-adventure serials. "Seth Jones; or, The Captives of the Frontier" by Edward S. Ellis opens with Alfred Haverland, a Pennsylvania emigrant, felling timber in western New York circa 1775 when a Yankee scout named Seth Jones arrives with warnings of Indian attacks and colonial hostility. Additional serials include "Daring Davy, The Young Bear Killer" by George (author of frontier tales); "Cinnamon Chip, The Girl Sport; or, The Golden Idol of Mt. Rosa" by Edward L. Wheeler (Deadwood Dick author), featuring action heroine Rosebud Rob; "Lance and Lasso" by Captain Frederick Whitt, depicting four schoolboys from the Tusculum Military Academy planning a South American adventure on the Argentine pampas; "The Yankee Rajahs; or, The Fate of the Black Shereef" by C. Dunning Clark; "Rapier Raphael; or, The Swordsmen of Zacatecas" by Major Henry B. Stoddard featuring dueling swordsmen; and "The Avenging Son" by Colonel Prentiss Ingraham, a Gulf-set romance involving pursuing vessels.