A complete issue · 32 pages · 1893
The Dwarf Decoy
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1893 — all 32 pages of painted-cover fiction magazines that launched science fiction, horror, and hardboiled crime, free to page through at ComicBooks.com.
A complete issue · 32 pages · 1893
The White Steed Rider: A Tale of the Old Dacotah Country by Maro O. Rolfe appears in this 1893 issue of Beadle's Weekly. The frontier adventure narrative follows Vinnie Darke, a golden-haired settler's daughter living in a remote northwestern cabin, and Clancy Vere, a young hunter who loves her. When Vinnie's father departs for the day, a Native American chief named Ku-nan-gu-no-nah forcibly enters the cabin to claim her as his wife. Simultaneously, Vere encounters six Indian warriors near a forest stream two miles away; after killing two attackers with his rifle stock, he is captured and taken toward a waterfall, where his captors declare he will be executed. The narrative intercuts between Vinnie's peril and Vere's predicament, building suspense through dual storylines of frontier danger and romantic entanglement.
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