Beadle's New York Dime Library, No. 486

# Yank Yellowbird's Search-Brigade

Author: Wm. H. Manning

This Western romance serial by Manning features Yank Yellowbird, a mountain scout known in the West as Nevermiss, camped with his companion Laramie Luke in Northwestern forests. An assassin named Joe Cross creeps toward them at night with a knife, intending to murder Yellowbird. A dog—Cross's own animal—howls, alerting Yellowbird, who shoots the would-be killer in self-defense. Before dying, Cross reveals there are multiple men determined to kill Yellowbird to prevent him from finding a Buried Treasure hidden near Black Rock Bend by two deceased men. Only Powderfoot the Pathfinder has possessed a clue to its location. Yellowbird explains he seeks the treasure to benefit Mary Sherwin, daughter of one original owner, who lives at Black Rock Bend where a missionary school operates. The text establishes Yellowbird's laconic frontier dialect and introduces characters including teachers Nell and Mary, missions superintendent Albert Brandreth, and hints at romantic complications ahead.