Beadle's Pocket Novels No. 127: Silverspur

# Silverspur: The Mountain Heroine

This Beadle and Adams pocket novel by Edward Willett presents a frontier adventure set in the Arapaho country. The narrative opens in a St. Louis saloon where two groups of men meet: a well-dressed band of mountain men discussing their exploits among mountains, plains, Indians, and buffalo; and a roughly-dressed frontiersman distinguished by his deerskin hunting-shirt embroidered in Indian fashion, leggings, moccasins, fox-skin cap, and weathered rifle. The frontiersman, described with distinctive physical features including a bent nose and prominent beard, approaches the gentlemanly group and identifies himself as one of their kind, initiating contact between the civilized and frontier worlds. The story promises to develop the meeting and interactions between these contrasting figures within the context of Western wilderness adventure.