The Deadwood Dick Library, No. 2

# Content Description

This issue of the Deadwood Dick dime novel series (March 22, 1899) contains the featured serial "The Double Daggers; or, The Regulators and Road-Agents of the Black Hills" by Edward L. Wheeler. The story opens in Deadwood's Pioneer newspaper office where a rough miner delivers a defiant advertisement from outlaw Deadwood Dick, threatening the Deadwood Regulators after several of his gang are killed in Big Lode Canyon. The miner coerces the young editor Augustus into printing the notice, which causes town sensation and prompts merchants to post a thousand-dollar bounty for Dick's capture. The narrative then shifts to the Metropolitan saloon, where Dashing Dave, leader of the Regulators—a vigilante force protecting the town—discusses Dick's reappearance with fellow bordermen. The serial is western action fiction featuring outlaws, vigilantes, and lawlessness in the Black Hills mining district. The issue also includes an extensive catalog of previous Deadwood Dick, Jr. novel titles available in the series.