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 |
by J. Randolph Cox. 338 pgs.
by Edmund Lester Pearson. 282 pgs.
by Thomas J. Roberts. 42 pgs.
by Edward Margolies. 95 pgs.
by Mary Noel. 326 pgs.
by Madeleine B. Stern. 410 pgs.
by Emory Elliott, Cathy N. Davidson, Patrick O'Donnell, Valerie Smith, Christopher P. Wilson. 912 pgs.
by M. Paul Holsinger. 479 pgs.
by Ronald Weber. 324 pgs.