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Beadle's Pocket Library No. 120

1886 · Free to read

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About this issue

This issue of Beadle and Adams' weekly contains "Gopher Gid, the Boy Trapper; or, Midnight Jack, the Road-Agent" by T. C. Harbaugh. In the opening chapters, whisky-smuggler Timon "Old Tanglefoot" Moss breaks down his wagon in a remote valley between Fort Sully and Deadwood, losing a wheel. After lightening his cargo by discarding books and packages consigned to a Deadwood citizen, Moss encounters a boy named Gopher Gid and attempts to shoot him to prevent word of his mishap reaching town. The narrative then shifts to the outlaw Midnight Jack, a notorious road-agent operating the trails to the Black Hills. Described as young, handsome, and daring—a "Claude Duval" of the frontier—Jack patrols on horseback, noting Moss has passed and planning to rob him on his return journey. The story combines frontier action, crime, and adventure across the Dakota Territory setting.

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