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Beadle's Dime Library No. 822

1894 · Free to read

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About this issue

This issue contains "Buffalo Bill's Best Bower," a frontier adventure serial by Colonel Prentiss Ingraham, appearing in chapters. The narrative follows Sherman Canfield, a sixteen-year-old border boy searching for help for a wounded mining party, who encounters Sergeant Frank Fessenden, a cavalry soldier shot by his treacherous partner Brad Dixon. Canfield engages in a gunfight with Dixon, shooting him dead despite the youth's initial reluctance to kill. The dying sergeant then reveals he has hidden a gold fortune from his secret mine in nearby mountains and entrusts Canfield with a map and instructions to deliver word of his death to his wife and daughter in Maryland, along with the recovered gold. The narrative emphasizes frontier adventure, heroic youth, and themes of honor and dying requests.

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