The White Tracker

This issue of Beadle and Adams's Dime Novels contains the adventure tale The White Tracker; or, The Panther of the Plains by the author of "The Boy Miners." Set in 1824 on the Kansas River, the story follows two trappers—Edward Murtel, a deserted British soldier turned fur trapper, and Harry Harmer, a Kentuckian who fought at New Orleans. While monitoring their traps, Harmer recounts a harrowing twenty-year-old escapade from Wisconsin: pursued by three armed Native Americans through dense forest, he outran them until reaching a fifty-foot bluff above a stream. The narrative emphasizes frontier adventure, survival, and combat, with detailed action sequences and frontier dialect. The magazine also advertises Beadle and Adams's extensive catalog of dime handbooks covering speakers, dialogues, etiquette, fortune-telling, games, and domestic guides—all priced at ten cents.