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Beadle's Half Dime Library No. 387

1884 · Free to read

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This Beadle and Adams serial (Vol. XV, No. 387, December 28, 1884) opens with an emigrant wagon train stalled on the western plains. Their guide, Warpath Will, has vanished; scout Guy Marsden finds only the guide's dead horse and moccasin tracks—signs of capture or death. Guy, a seventeen-year-old plainsman with two years' frontier experience, offers to guide the train onward. His account includes harrowing details: he arrived home after an Indian ambush killed three companions, then nursed a wounded comrade for three weeks before continuing alone. Most emigrants vote to return for a proper guide, but Guy's mother—ill and desperate to reach Guy's gold-prospector father in the Rocky Mountains—insists on continuing westward with her children. The narrative shifts to the mountains, where Guy's father awaits them, preparing a cabin beside a mining claim he has struck.

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