Beadle's Half Dime Library No. 634

"The True Heartsaf Red-Eye Roost: A Romance of the Colorado Ranges" by Buckskin Sam (Major Sam S. Hall) comprises the featured serial in this September 17, 1899 issue. The story concerns David Darington, a Denver businessman, who has entered a mining partnership with two brothers, John and William Black, involving the Flush-Hand Mine at Pocketville. Suspecting treachery after discovering evidence of a scheme, Dashiell Darington—the nineteen-year-old son—departs to warn his father. Meanwhile, his sixteen-year-old sister Della remains unaware that their household servant Florette Forbes is actually William Black's daughter, planted as a spy. Upon learning of Dash's departure through eavesdropping, Florette reports to John Black. He subsequently plots Della's abduction by the outlaw Don Diablo to secure her fifty-thousand-dollar inheritance. The narrative combines frontier adventure with melodramatic intrigue involving financial fraud, family betrayal, and criminal conspiracy.