Beadle's Dime Library No. 953: 'Dashing Charlie's Minutemen'

This issue of Beadle & Adams Weekly (January 27, 1897) features "Dashing Charlie's Minute Men: Black Horse Bill's Iniquitous Plot," a frontier serial by Col. Prentiss Ingraham. The narrative centers on three scouts—the mysterious "Mounted Tramp," Dashing Charlie, and Diamond Dan—who capture the outlaw chieftain Black Horse Bill and his gang, the "Black Horse Bravos." The Mounted Tramp, revealed as Homer Rockwell, rescues the imprisoned scouts and captures Bill's retreat, though he honors a pledge to release the bound outlaw chief if he reveals the location of his hideout. The story involves frontier skirmishes, Indian threats around Fort Advance, and the recovery of stolen diamonds. The Mounted Tramp distributes recovered property to its rightful owners, establishing himself as an ambiguous figure—part vigilante, part mysterious wanderer.