Beadle's Dime Novels No. 185: The Dacotah Scourge

# Catalog Description

The Dacotah Scourge: The White Antelope of the Pawnees by George W. Robinson (Beadle's Dime Novels No. 185, 1889) features frontier adventure centered on Balt Walters, a skilled hunter and Indian-fighter living with his family on the western frontier. After Walters rescues a wounded Pawnee chief named Santalanta and receives a tribal totem marking him as protected by the Pawnees, the family faces attack from hostile Dacotah (Sioux) warriors. The narrative follows Walters, his wife Amy, their two children, and trapper Dan Lee as they defend their isolated log cabin during a prolonged siege. When the Dacotahs employ flaming arrows to ignite the cabin roof, Walters prepares his family for a desperate last stand. The serial depicts frontier combat, wilderness survival, and cross-cultural alliance amid westward expansion.