The Deadwood Dick Library
Published by Arthur Westbrook from 1912-1934.
Format: nickel weekly.
From the mid 19th to the early 20th century, the fiction genres known as dime novels, penny dreadfuls, and story papers flourished in England and America. The increasing mechanization of the printing process, more efficient distribution methods, and a rising literacy rate all contributed to this publishing phenomenon. Printed on the cheapest of paper, with lurid cover illustrations, dime novels (which found a name in their ten cent price tag) and story papers were considered ephemeral, to be read, often in secret, passed on to friends, or discarded. These delightful items, ancestors of the ubiquitous mass-market paperbacks of today, reveal the reading tastes of a population often neglected in historical studies.
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Blonde Bill, or, Deadwood Dick's home base : a romance of the "silent tongues"
Edward L. (Lytton) Wheeler
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Canada Chet, the counterfeiter chief; or, Old Anaconda in Sitting Bull's camp
Edward L. (Lytton) Wheeler
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Chip, the girl sport, or, The golden idol of Mt. Rosa : a tale of northern Arizona
Edward L. (Lytton) Wheeler
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Deadwood Dick's doom, or, Calamity Jane's last adventure : a tale of Death Notch
Edward L. (Lytton) Wheeler
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Deadwood Dick's dream, or, The rivals of the road : a mining tale of "Tombstone"
Edward L. (Lytton) Wheeler
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Deadwood Dick, the prince of the road; or, The black rider of the Black Hills
Edward L. (Lytton) Wheeler
