A complete issue · 32 pages · 1892
Beadle's Dime Library No. 691
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1892 — all 32 pages of painted-cover fiction magazines that launched science fiction, horror, and hardboiled crime, free to page through at ComicBooks.com.
A complete issue · 32 pages · 1892
Mustang Madge: The Daughter of the Regiment Beadle and Adams, No. 691, January 20, 1892. This wild west romance by Colonel Prentiss Ingraham features Buffalo Bill and the Surgeon Scout (Dr. Frank Powell) leading a cavalry party pursued by approximately two hundred Indians. The escort includes two English officers—Lord Lucien Lonsfield and Captain Sir John Reeder—and pack animals. Powell delays the pursuing warriors while the party escapes over a ridge, inflicting casualties with his repeating rifle. The narrative reveals the Englishmen's purpose: locating Granger Goldhurst, a lost heir to the Vancourt estates who disappeared from England nineteen years prior after a duel in India. Goldhurst sailed to Brazil, worked as a mate on trading vessels, shipwrecked in the West Indies, and disappeared five years ago into the Rocky Mountains near the fort. Colonel Loyal directs the officers to engage Buffalo Bill and Surgeon Powell as guides for their search, praising both men's abilities as trackers and scouts.
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