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Dime Novels - swift-moving, thrilling novels, mainly about the American Revolution, the frontier period, and the Civil War. The books were first sold in 1860 for 10 cents by the firm of Beadle and Adams. The earliest was Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter (1860), by Anne Stephens, which is said to have sold 300,000 copies in the first year; similar novels sold by the thousands

9 of the Best Books and Articles on: Dime Novels

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The Dime Novel Companion: A Source Book » Read Now
by J. Randolph Cox. 338 pgs.

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This encyclopedic guide to the American dime novel contains over 1,200 entries on serial publications, major writers and editors, publishers, and major characters, fiction genres, themes, and locales. An introduction provides a brief history of the dime novel. A discussion of dime novel scholarship...
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This encyclopedic guide to the American dime novel contains over 1,200 entries on serial publications, major writers and editors, publishers, and major characters, fiction genres, themes, and locales. An introduction provides a brief history of the dime novel. A discussion of dime novel scholarship includes a selected directory of libraries and museums with significant collections of dime novels. An appendix contains a publishing chronology of the more than 300 serial publications, and a selected bibliography suggests further reading.
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Dime Novels: Or, Following an Old Trail in Popular Literature » Read Now
by Edmund Lester Pearson. 282 pgs.

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...DIME NOVELS EARLIEST TYPE OF DIME NOVEL A BEADLES "YELLOW-BACK." See page 259 DIME NOVELS; OR, FOLLOWING AN OLD TRAIL IN POPULAR...THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BALLADE OF...
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Gold Bullet Sport, a Dime Novel by Buffalo Bill; Or, a Record of an Expedition into the Great American Literary Desert, in Texas Studies in Literature and Language » Read Now
by Thomas J. Roberts. 42 pgs.

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...Charles Bragin, a collector of dime novels, called Gold Bullet Sport the " high spot of Buffalo Bill dime novels." This is no small tribute: there...Companion . This was...
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Which Way Did He Go? The Private Eye in Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Chester Himes, and Ross Macdonald (discussion of dime novels begins on p. 8) » Read Now
by Edward Margolies. 95 pgs.

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Villains Galore: The Heyday of the Popular Story Weekly (discussion of dime novels begins on p. 121) » Read Now
by Mary Noel. 326 pgs.

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...the cheap pamphlet novels, which ultimately sold at a dime or a half-dime. These...Courier. Judged by later dime-novel and story-paper standards, Ingrahams novels were...
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We the Women: Career Firsts of Nineteenth-Century America (Chap. 2 "The Author of the First Beadle Dime Novel") » Read Now
by Madeleine B. Stern. 410 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...their announcements that "Beadles Dime Novels, No. 1" was "Ready This Morning...public. The first of the Beadle Dime Novels was available at all new depots...perfection...
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The Columbia History of the American Novel (discussion of dime novels begins on p. 285) » Read Now
by Emory Elliott, Cathy N. Davidson, Patrick O'Donnell, Valerie Smith, Christopher P. Wilson. 912 pgs.

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This text offers new views of our literary history and a sophisticated examination of areas of history that have only recently begun to receive attention.
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War and American Popular Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia ("Beadle and Adams Dime Novels" p. 85) » Read Now
by M. Paul Holsinger. 479 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

Spanning more than 400 years of America's past, this book brings together, for the first time, entries on the ways Americans have mythologized both the many wars the nation has fought and the men and women connected with those conflicts. Focusing on significant representations in popular culture, it...
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Spanning more than 400 years of America's past, this book brings together, for the first time, entries on the ways Americans have mythologized both the many wars the nation has fought and the men and women connected with those conflicts. Focusing on significant representations in popular culture, it provides information on fiction, drama, poems, songs, film and television, art, memorials, photographs, documentaries, and cartoons. From the colonial wars before 1775 to our 1997 peacekeeper role in Bosnia, the work briefly explores the historical background of each war period, enabling the reader to place each of the more than 500 entries into their proper context.
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Hired Pens: Professional Writers in America's Golden Age of Print (discussion of dime novels begins on p. 62) » Read Now
by Ronald Weber. 324 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...market provided by story papers, dime novels, pulp and slick magazines, newspaper...freakish misapplication in the entire dime museum of the human race." 19...became the...