A complete issue · 32 pages · 1893
Beadle's New York Dime Library No. 759
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1893 — 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 · 1893
A gold-camp western serial appearing in this 1898 Beadle and Adams dime novel. The story opens with a coach journey to the booming mining town of Big Ledge, where driver Giddy Norton describes three productive mines—the Golden Horn (owned by Dandy Jim Crocker), the High Horse (Saul Bartol), and the Lone Hunter (Major Myst)—and mentions the widowed proprietor of the Cherry House, Kate Cherry, whom both Crocker and Myst court. An ambush kills Norton mid-sentence; a well-dressed passenger assumes control of the coach and pursues the assassin, discovering blood but losing the trail. A female passenger vanishes mysteriously from the coach. The Sport (as he's called) arrives at Big Ledge with Norton's corpse as the camp gathers at Riata's Ranch, eager for the delayed payroll coach. Crocker and Bartol, the camp's ruling figures, question the mysterious newcomer about the attack; the marshal Dan Burgess is summoned from drunken sleep.
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