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Beadle's Pocket Library, No. 488

1893 · Free to read

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About this issue

"Harry Winkle's Long Chase" by William R. Eyster, serialized in this 1893 Beadle and Adams publication, is a Western adventure narrative. The opening chapters present Harry Winkle, a determined tracker and sharpshooter, intent on pursuing a mysterious target through Back Load Trail. After a tense confrontation with Dick Martin, a leader of Free Trappers, during which a corpse mysteriously surfaces in the stream, Winkle encounters a woman rider who provokes an intense emotional reaction. Subsequent chapters reveal Martin independently investigating disturbances, encountering suspicious figures. The narrative combines gunfight tension, frontier setting details, and elements of pursuit and revelation as Winkle searches for his unnamed quarry amid tangled motives.

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