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The Maid of the Mountain

1868 · Free to read

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About this issue

This issue of Beadle's Dime Novels (No. 147) contains "The Maid of the Mountain; or, The Brothers of the League," a romance of the Sierra Nevada frontier. The narrative follows a band of Regulators—vigilante miners and rangers—camped in the mountains during early California, hunting a gang of robbers responsible for murdering prospectors and stealing gold. The leaders are Adam Lane, a seasoned captain, and Thomas Elliot, a capable young lieutenant from New York. When rangers capture a Mexican spy named Manuel de Castro prowling the camp at night, Elliot interrogates him through torture—suspending him by bound thumbs from a tree limb—until Castro reveals he was sent by an organization called "the Brothers of the League," the robber gang the Regulators seek. The narrative emphasizes frontier violence, masculine virtue, and the dangers of California's lawless era.

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