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Beadle's Half Dime Library, No. 246

1882 · Free to read

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About this issue

This pulp tale, "Giant George: The Ang'l of the Range" by Buckskin Sam (Major Sam S. Hall), appeared in the April 11, 1882 issue of Beadle and Adams' weekly dime novel. The story introduces Giant George, a towering, unkempt frontiersman who arrives in Sardine-box City, Arizona, dragging his diminutive burro companion, Don Diablo, into a saloon. George's raucous manner—threatening violence, shooting a bottle cork off Don Diablo's head, and forcing a card sharp onto the burro—terrorizes the O.K. saloon's patrons. Meanwhile, the town's fifty rough inhabitants have abandoned their mining operations in excitement over a beautiful young veiled woman's arrival at the Nugget Hotel. Hank Holbrook, the proprietor, rallies the townspeople to celebrate in a canyon, fearing her delicate nature might be disturbed by their rough celebrations.

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