Beadle's Dime Library No. 920

About this issue

This June 1896 issue features "The Montana Miner in New York; or, The Detective Tangle" by W. H. Manning (author of "Steve Starr, the Dock Detective" and other serials). Benjamin "Bear-Claim" Richardson, a Montana prospector-adventurer, encounters a distressed woman on a New York pier who reports being robbed of something precious—mysterious documents that fell into the river. When Richardson is initially mistaken for the thief, the woman attacks him and falls into the water. Though Richardson attempts rescue, she disappears. Witnesses from a nearby warehouse believe Richardson is the murderer, forcing him to flee the scene. Later, while traveling the East Side, Richardson stumbles upon a street altercation involving a carriage where a woman fires from inside. When the antagonist escapes, a man named Hickman Ransom mentions pursuing Albert Charleston—a name that electrifies Richardson, suggesting a connection to his own undisclosed mission of "just vengeance" in New York.