The Deadwood Dick Library, Vol. IV, No. 46

This issue of the Half-Dime Library (No. 46, January 24, 1900) features the serialized western fiction of Edward L. Wheeler. The primary content is "The Jimtown Sport; Gypsy Jack in Colorado," a story set in newly boom-town Durango following a gold discovery. The narrative centers on Gypsy Jack, a young, fashionably dressed adventurer accompanied by Shy Sam, a Chinaman, and Skip, an intelligent dog who rides horseback. Jack arrives to claim Claim No. 30, allegedly bequeathed to him by a deceased woman named Mexican Mag, against the objections of the speculator John Metcalf, who holds a deed. The dispute escalates to threats when Metcalf refuses to surrender the claim. The issue also catalogs numerous other Deadwood Dick, Jr. installments in Wheeler's ongoing series, all published by M. J. Ivers & Co. at five cents per copy.