Beadle's Pocket Novels
21 issues in the collection · 30 readable cover-to-cover. Public domain, digitally restored.
Frontier scouts fleeing across Lake Erie, gold prospectors in California, Pony Express riders in Nevada, and Revolutionary War rangers at Valley Forge populate these pocket novels from Beadle and Adams (1856–1883). Stories by Jos. E. Badger Jr., Frederick Whittaker, P. Hamilton Myers, and Mary A. Denison blend vigilante action, Indian warfare, tropical adventure, and historical drama.
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Read · 100 pages1874This serial romance by Mrs. M. V.
Read · 100 pages1874This 1874 pulp serial by Captain Mayne Reid, titled "The Island Pirate: A Tale of the Mississippi," follows a British traveler through Tennessee and the Mississippi valley seeking authentic adventure.
Read · 84 pages1876Nat, the Trapper and Indian-Fighter by Paul J.
Read · 100 pages1876This issue of River Rifles (volume V, no.
Read · 100 pages1876Hunter Ham; or, The Outlaw's Crime by J.
Read · 100 pages1876The Texas Hawks; or, The Strange Decoy by Jos.
Read · 100 pages1876This dime novel by Captain Charles Howard, published by Beadle and Adams in October 1876, recounts the historical massacre at Fort Mimms (August 30, 1813) and its aftermath.
Read · 100 pages1876By Emerson Rodman (Beadle and Adams, 1870)
A frontier adventure novella set on the Ohio River.
Read · 100 pages1876This issue of The Haunted Hunter; or, Bill Blaze, the Luckless Trapper by William R.
Read · 100 pages1876This frontier adventure tale, serialized in an 1878 Beadle and Adams dime novel, centers on Frontier Shack (Ote Shackelford), a grizzled scout on the Platte River who rescues two y
Read · 100 pages1876By Captain Charles Howard, this frontier narrative is set in August 1812 during the War of 1812.
Read · 100 pages1877"Iron Hand, Chief of the Tory League," serialized in Beadle and Adams's dime novel (February 8, 1877), follows Edgar Sherwood, an English captain in the Continental Army during 1778 near Lake George.
Read · 100 pages1877This installment, published by Beadle and Adams (1872), is an adventure serial by Capt.
Read · 100 pages1878This issue of Beadle and Adams pocket novel features "Redlaw, the Half-Breed; or, The Tangled Trail," a frontier tale by Jos.
Read · 100 pages1878This Beadle and Adams dime novel serial, "Scarred Eagle: A Story of Lake and Shore" by Andrew Dearborn (published 1870), opens with a frontier chase across Lake Erie.
Read · 100 pages1878Nick Doyle, the Gold-Hunter: A Tale of California by P.
Read · 100 pages1880This serial adventure novel, "Billy Bowlegs, the Seminole Chief, or, The Captives of the Kissimmee," by the author of "Silver Bugle" and "Quindaro," recounts frontier warfare in 1830s Florida.
Read · 100 pages1880Canebrake Mose; The Swamp Guide by Walter Norris McNEIL (New York: Beadle and Adams, 1877).
Read · 100 pages1880Hank, the Guide; or, The Wrong Trail by Harry Hazard is a Western adventure novel serialized in Beadle and Adams's pocket novel series (1877).
Read · 100 pages1880Wild Nat, the Gulch Terror by W.
Read · 98 pages1880This cover for Beadle's Pocket Novels depicts a frontier confrontation: a woman in red and a man in blue gesture animatedly beneath gnarled trees, while two other figures observe.
Read · 100 pages1882By Mary A. Denison. Beadle and Adams pocket novel (circa 1860).
Read · 100 pages1882Peleg Smith: Adventures in the Tropics by Boynton H.
Read · 100 pages1882"The Witch of the Wallowish: A Legend of the Susquehanna" by Edwin E.
Read · 100 pages1882This issue of Dick Darling, the Pony Expressman by Frederick Whittaker (Beadle and Adams, 1874) presents a Western adventure set at Dolores Station on the Nevada Pony Express route.
Read · 100 pages1883A historical fiction set during the American Revolutionary War at Valley Forge in 1777.
Read · 100 pages1883On the Deep: The Missionary's Daughter
By Roger Starbuck, this maritime adventure opens as the bark Rainbow departs the Sandwich Islands with eighteen-year-old Grace Greenville aboard.
Read · 100 pages1883Irona; or, Life on the Old South-West Border by Edward S.
Read · 100 pages1883"The Hunter's Escape: A Tale of the Northwest in 1862" by Edward S.
Read · 100 pages1883By Colin Barker, published by Beadle and Adams (1880), this adventure narrative opens with an elaborate hunt through the tropical forests of the province of Cahay.
All issues
Chronological.
Beadle's Pocket Novels No. 39: Wetzel, the Scout
Beadle's Pocket Novels No. 71: Delaware Tom
Beadle's Pocket Novels No. 74: Little Rifle, the Boy Trapper
Beadle's Pocket Novels No. 87
Beadle's Pocket Novels, No. 86: The Hunter Hercules
Beadle's Pocket Novels No. 117: Abdiel, the Avenger
Beadle's Pocket Novels No. 121: Black Nick
Beadle's Pocket Novels No. 126: Yankee Eph
Beadle's Pocket Novels No. 175: Border Bessie
Beadle's Pocket Novels No. 184: Mustang Sam
Beadle's Pocket Novels No. 188: The Shawnees' Foe
Beadle's Pocket Novels No. 189
Beadle's Pocket Novels No. 190: Old Jupe
Beadle's Pocket Novels No. 214: The Backwoodsmen
Beadle's Pocket Novels No. 232: Jabez Hawk
Beadle's Pocket Novels No. 235: The Reefer of '76
Beadle's Pocket Novels No. 239: Rattlepate
Beadle's Pocket Novels No. 244: Dashing Dick
Beadle's Pocket Novels No. 246: Ben Bramble
Beadle's Pocket Novels: Massasoit's Daughter
Beadle's Pocket Novels No. 249: Gray Hair, the Chief
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