Beadle's Dime Library No. 199

# Diamond Dick, the Dandy from Denver

This issue of Beadle & Adams' Dime Novels presents "Diamond Dick, the Dandy from Denver" by Major Sam S. Hall, writing as "Buckskin Sam." The narrative opens in Big Medicine City, a rough mining town near Taos, New Mexico, where Bowlder Bill, a burly miner, encounters Jim Jams, a destitute, consumptive drifter who claims knowledge of pocket-gold deposits. After initial hostility, fueled by Bill's drinking, the two men reconcile over whiskey and cigars. A mysterious muscular figure, Pueblo Pete, enters the bar carrying a letter addressed to George Holbrook, seemingly connected to someone called "the cap'n." The narrative then shifts retrospectively to Ogdensburg, New York, where two ladies—middle-aged Mary McClellan and an elderly companion—sit on a mansion veranda three months prior, with Mary appearing troubled and withdrawn.