Beadle's New Dime Novels
23 issues in the collection · 27 readable cover-to-cover. Public domain, digitally restored.
Beadle and Adams' cheaply printed serials (1860s–1880s) brought sensational fiction to working readers: Revolutionary War naval adventures, frontier rangers meeting Native American leaders, Maine lumbermen, colonial New England conflicts, and wilderness scouts pursuing captives across dangerous terrain. Authors include Lieut. Robert Phillipse, W. J. Hamilton, John Neal, and Captain Murray.
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Read · 100 pages1875This Beadle and Adams dime novel, authored by W.
Read · 100 pages1876On the Trail: Tim Bufton, the Trapper by Edward S.
Read · 100 pages1876This issue contains two principal items.
Read · 100 pages1876This is a Beadle and Adams dime novel from 1870, a publisher's catalog page followed by the opening of "The Renegade Chief; or, Kirke, the Renegade" by Joseph L.
Read · 100 pages1876This 1871 dime novel by Edwin Emerson features "Dingle, the Outlaw," opening with three hunters—young Philip Campbell, weathered scout Tom Badger, and Irish laborer Arran O'Rourke—camped by the Cumberland River in Tennessee.
Read · 100 pages1876This is an 1870 Beadle and Adams dime novel by Oll Coomes titled Thornpath, the Trailer; or, The Perils of the Prairie.
Read · 100 pages1876This issue contains Foul-Weather Jack; or, The Double Wreck by Roger Starbuck, a maritime adventure novella.
Read · 101 pages1878This 1878 dime novel by Andrew Dearborn, White Serpent, the Shawnee Scourge, opens in February 1742 along the Mohawk-Hudson junction.
Read · 100 pages1878This dime novel issue from Beadle and Adams contains "The Twin Trailers; or The Gamecock of El Paso," a Western tale by Edward Willett set on the Texan frontier.
Read · 100 pages1878The opening installment of this dime novel is set thirty-five years prior in Kentucky and Tennessee, establishing the story's historical context of sparse settlement and regional distinctiveness.
Read · 100 pages1878By Colonel Prentiss Ingraham, this adventure tale depicts an encounter between an American merchant vessel and Moorish corsairs in the early nineteenth century.
Read · 100 pages1878This issue No. 7 of Beadle's Dime Novels contains The Warrior Princess: The Pride of the Everglades by W.
Read · 99 pages1879A frontiersman in red cap and green jacket strides across rocky terrain, rifle raised, tracking game.
Read · 98 pages1879The Privateer; or, The Pride of the Nansemond by Lieut.
Read · 92 pages1879This dime novel, "Barden, the Ranger: The Flower of the Uchees," by W.
Read · 100 pages1879Eph Peters: or The Scout of the Mohawk Valley by W.
Read · 101 pages1879This catalog entry describes Little Moccasin; or, Along the Madawaska, a dime novel serialized in Beadle and Adams' popular hand-book series (1866).
Read · 100 pages1881This dime novel by C. Dunning Clark (published by Beadle and Adams, 1887) opens with historical fiction set in colonial New England.
Read · 100 pages1881This is a Beadle and Adams dime novel from 1885 titled "Captain Molly; or, The Fight at Trenton, Christmas, 1776" by Mrs.
Read · 101 pages1881This 1860s dime novel by Captain Murray follows the young Delaware trail-hunter Wingenund, hero of a previous narrative.
Read · 121 pages1881A man in a brown coat and hat confronts a kneeling figure in red by a riverside, while a grotesque green creature looms between them.
Read · 108 pages1881This 1868 dime novel by Edward S.
Read · 100 pages1883Blue Dick; or, The Yellow Chief's Vengeance by Captain Mayne Reid
This romance of the Rocky Mountains follows the aftermath of a brutal plantation punishment.
Read · 100 pages1883This serialized romance by Mrs.
Read · 101 pages1884This Beadle and Adams dime novel, Bess, the Female Trapper, by Lieutenant J.
Read · 100 pages1884This Beadle and Adams dime novel, The Specter Chief: The Indian's Revenge by Seelin Robins, is set in spring 1774 along the Ohio River during escalating colonial-Indian conflict.
Read · 100 pages1885By Captain Charles Howard. Published by Beadle and Adams, New York, this dime novel recounts a frontier narrative of vengeance set in 1813 Alabama.
All issues
Chronological.
Beadle's New Dime Novels: Alone on the Plains
Beadle's New Dime Novels: The Lake Rangers
Beadle's New Dime Novels: Sonora Ben
Beadle's New Dime Novels: The Blue Clipper
Beadle's New Dime Novels: Swiftwing, the Squaw
Beadle's New Dime Novels, No. 116
Beadle's New Dime Novels: Quindaro
Beadle's New Dime Novels: Rob Ruskin
Beadle's New Dime Novels: Sumter's Scouts
Beadle's New Dime Novels: The Five Champions
Beadle's New Dime Novels: The Two Guards
Beadle's New Dime Novels: The Young Mustanger
Beadle's New Dime Novels: Tippy, the Texan
Beadle's New Dime Novels
Beadle's New Dime Novels, New Series No. 179
Beadle's New Dime Novels: Alice Wilde
Beadle's New Dime Novels, No. 205
Beadle's New Dime Novels: Bill Biddon, Trapper
Beadle's New Dime Novels: Burt Bunker, the Trapper
Beadle's New Dime Novels: Carson, the Guide
Beadle's New Dime Novels: Indian Joe, the Guide
Beadle's New Dime Novels: Single Eye, the Scourge
Beadle's New Dime Novels: Hunter Ham
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