Beadle's Dime Novels: The Grizzly-Hunters

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This Beadle and Adams dime novel, The Grizzly-Hunters: or, The Navahoe Captives. A Tale of the Lost City of the Sierras, is written by Frederick Whittaker. The serialized narrative opens dramatically with a wounded man on horseback encountering a jaguar at a mountain spring in New Mexico's Sierra Mimbres region. After a tense struggle in which he manages to shoot the beast, the protagonist collapses from blood loss. He is discovered by approximately three hundred mounted Navajo Indians descending the gorge. The story combines adventure and frontier action, establishing themes of survival in hostile wilderness and encounters with Native American peoples. The catalog advertises this as part of Beadle's popular dime fiction series alongside various educational and domestic guides.