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Beadle's Half Dime Library, No. 283

1882 · Free to read

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About this issue

Indian Joe; or, The White Spirit of the Hare is a frontier adventure serial by Major Lewis W. Carson, published in this December 1882 Beadle and Adams weekly. The narrative follows young hunter Daniel Crowley, who encounters a German immigrant named Yost (or Hoppen) sleeping by a stream and recruits him to join a hunting expedition on the western plains. The story establishes a diverse camp of trappers, half-breed guides, and frontiersmen. After initial friction with the crude trapper Jeff Rooter—culminating in a wrestling match won by the surprisingly strong Yost—the group tests marksmanship on turkey-buzzards, with Yost demonstrating unexpected shooting skill. Rooter plays a practical joke involving a dead buzzard. The serial emphasizes frontier dialect, masculine physical competition, hunting pursuits, and ethnic humor centered on Yost's Germanic speech patterns and unfamiliarity with American frontier life.

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