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  2. Dime novel - Wikipedia

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    The dime novel is a form of late 19th-century and early 20th-century U.S. popular fiction issued in series of inexpensive paperbound editions. The term dime novel has been used as a catchall term for several different but related forms, referring to story papers, five- and ten-cent weeklies, "thick book" reprints, and sometimes early pulp magazines.

  3. Dime Western - Wikipedia

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    A dime Western is a modern term for Western-themed dime novels, which spanned the era of the 1860s–1900s.Most would hardly be recognizable as a modern western, having more in common with James Fennimore Cooper's Leatherstocking saga, but many of the standard elements originated here: a cool detached hero, a frontiersman (later a cowboy), a fragile heroine in danger of the despicable outlaw ...

  4. Western fiction - Wikipedia

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    The Wister trace: classic novels of the American frontier (Jameson Books, 1987) Fleming, Robert E (October 1979). The Dime Novel Western. Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association. Hamilton, Cynthia S. Western and hard-boiled detective fiction in America: from high noon to midnight (Macmillan, 1987) Jones, Daryl (c. 1978). The dime novel ...

  5. Frank Tousey - Wikipedia

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    Frank Tousey (1853–1902) was among the top five publishers of dime novels in the late 19th-century and early 20th-century. Based in New York, his sensationalism drew a large audience of youth, hungry for scenes of daring and tormented heroes and damsels in distress. Of particular notice in his approach to the 'blood and thunder' genre were ...

  6. The Steam Man of the Prairies - Wikipedia

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    Ellis was a prolific 19th-century author best known as a historian and biographer and a source of early heroic frontier tales in the style of James Fenimore Cooper. This novel may be inspired by the steam powered invention of Zadoc Dederick. [3] The original novel was reissued six times from 1868 to 1904. [4]

  7. Ned Buntline bibliography - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of works by American dime novel author Edward Zane Carroll Judson commonly known by ... Buffalo Bill's Best Shot. New York: Street & Smith ...

  8. Edward S. Ellis - Wikipedia

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    Seth Jones was a prototypical early dime novel published by Beadle and Adams. [6] It is said that Seth Jones was one of Abraham Lincoln's favorite stories. [7] During the mid-1880s, after a fiction-writing career of some thirty years, Ellis eventually began composing more serious works of biography, history, and persuasive writing.

  9. Pluck and Luck - Wikipedia

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    Pluck and Luck: Complete Stories of Adventure was an American dime novel first published by Frank Tousey and was the longest-running dime novel. [1] It numbered 1605 issues from January 12, 1898 to March 5, 1929. The 32-page magazine was semi-monthly for the first 22 issues and then weekly.

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