Beadle's Dime Library No. 820

White Beaver's Still Hunt; or, The Miner Marauder's Death-Track

By Buffalo Bill (Col. W. F. Cody), serialized in this Beadle and Adams dime novel, continues with Chapter IV. The narrative follows a pale-face cavalry surgeon, D. Frank Powell, who intervenes in a Sioux drama: the renegade Cheyenne chief Killer attempts to kidnap the maiden Red Bird while fleeing her betrothed, War Eagle. After a dramatic standoff at a stream, Powell shoots Killer dead and tends the wounded War Eagle's gunshot wounds. Powell's medical skill and bravery earn him blood-brotherhood among the Sioux; War Eagle names Red Bird the "Little Girl Soldier" and grants Powell the scalp and war-bonnet of the dead chief. The narrative establishes Powell as a haunted former miner and guide who chose frontier military surgery over civilized medical practice.