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Beadle's Half Dime Library No. 891

1894 · Free to read

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About this issue

This August 1894 issue of Beadle and Adams' Dime Novels features "Deadwood Dick, Jr.'s Dead-Sure Game; Pistol Polly of Nuggetville" by Ed. L. Wheeler, an installment of the Deadwood Dick series. The narrative begins in the mining camp of Rosy Posy, where Mayor Marshal Mackerel has recently completed a new Town Hall, hoping to rival neighboring camps. When a stagecoach arrives bearing Lucy Love, a young dancing instructor bound for Nuggetville's schoolhouse, Mackerel persuades her to establish her dancing school in Rosy Posy's superior new hall instead. Lucy accepts and registers at the Big Hen hotel. Another quiet passenger, Dick Bristol, also disembarks; he agrees to serve as her manager. The townspeople respond enthusiastically to the prospect of dancing lessons, anticipating the school will attract visitors from surrounding settlements.

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