Stephens, author of malaeska, myra, the child of adoption, etc. Series nick carter weekly the dime novel bibliography. This list of dime novel romance series and story papers is in alphabetical order by publisher. Cowboys, outlaws and the dime novels trips into history. The dead man on the roof, or, nick carter clears an honored name 577. Aug, 20 by world war i dime novels were being published less.
Chicken fried toys cft is proud to introduce the dime novel legends dnl, their firstever lineup of 3. Unlike the detective fiction of poe or doyle, there is little analytical. Book trails was originally published as an 8 volume set in 1928 in blue lowembossed bindings with colored pictures on the front. Romance series and story papers american womens dime novel. This collection includes uncensored images and content from the historical record, some of which are objectionable and offensive. Beadles dime library of choice fiction beadles dime novels beadles dime song books beadles dime speakers beadles dime tales, traditions and romance of border and revolutionary times beadles fifteen cent novels beadles frontier series beadles half dime library beadles half dime novelettes. By the 1880s the technology for color reproduction had advanced to the stage where color imagery was becoming the norm. Full text of the beadle collection of dime novels given to the new york public library by dr. Dime novels article about dime novels by the free dictionary. The dime novel itself changed in format a number of times. In the late 1800s the imagination of a nation was fueled by the wonder of dime novels.
Buntline of dime novels is a crossword puzzle clue that we have spotted 1 time. Digital dime novels university of minnesota libraries. This series consists primarily of beadles dime novels reprints. According to one book historian, dime novels were sent to the army in the field by cords, like unsawed firewood. They were so cheap that almost anyone could afford them, and so exciting that almost everybody wanted to read them. Dime novels helped shape modern concept of the book as a commodity item. Dime novels can be considered the paperback books of their day, and they often featured tales of mountain men, explorers, soldiers, detectives, or indian fighters. Dime novels in special collections dime novels were published from the middle nineteenth century through the early twentieth century and were largely pulp fiction aimed at a young male audience.
Obrien 1922, by new york public library multiple formats at filed under. Adventures with intelligent apes treasure of the golden crater from adventure library, no. The american womens dime novel roy rosenzweig center. Dime novels and series books have, for more than a century, provided a battleground for a contest over childrens reading. Although the dime novel had a limited number of years as a dominate book form, it had a significant impact on book production and marketing. The beadle collection of dime novels by new york public. The dime novel focused on the west because of americas increasing fascination and curiosity with expansion, native americans, and pioneers. The deterioration of the dime novel began in the early 1880s and was accelerated with the introduction of detective, gamin, and bootblack stories, but beadle, which published its last books in. Or, following an old trail in popular literature at.
Dime novels were short works of fiction, usually focused on the dramatic exploits of a single heroic character. Sep 09, 2019 the necessity of the dime novel and short stories dime novels were short works of fiction, usually focused on the dramatic exploits of a single heroic character. Rhyzyk is a member of a unit investigating the drug sales of a violent drug dealer which intensifies after a large, surveilled drug sale goes off track. Second, ive now got at least one sample of each available for purchase here in the sites collectibles section. Or, following an old trail in popular literature edmund lester pearson snippet view 1968. Full text pdfs for several dime novels are listed below. Chromoxylography was one of the early methods developed for multicolor. Two book travelers, one of whom works in england, add some 3,000 books a year. The wild west was wild, but perhaps not as wild as often presented to sell books and movie tickets.
The first profitable mass literature in america was the dime novel, which emerged in 1860. While researching my book on wyatt earp, i came across an interesting anecdote. The books were first sold in 1860 for 10 cents by the firm of beadle and adams. The term dime novel has been used as a catchall term for several different but related forms, referring to story papers, five and tencent weeklies, thick book reprints, and sometimes early pulp magazines. Like the comics today, dime novels were attacked by the moraliststhere was a scarcity of psychologists in those days. Among the items he found there was half of a dime novel. From the james gang to the buffalo soldiers, the dramas unfolded with every new page. The term dime novel became the general term for similar popular literature. Horatio alger, a famous dime novel author, an alumna of harvard divinity school, and a unitarian minister, wrote under his own name. Most dime novel detective stories follow the same basic formula. An overview of womens dime novels and cheap fiction from 1870 to 1920. This collection includes holdings from the walter f.
The dime novel s influence on westward expansion and thought. Jun 28, 2017 free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. The dime novel successors have been the pulp magazines, with a slightly more adult appeal. The dime novel depicted both outlaws and cowboys as a wild bunch. Standish page images at hathitrust frank merriwells mystery, or, the trail of the blue diamond new york. The dime by kathleen kent is the first novel of a series featuring hardnosed det. Dime novels probably did more than any other kind of book to turn lower and middleclass americans into both book owners and book readers. Aside from dying of cholera in the oregon trail video game, reading little house on the prairie, by laura ingalls wilder, has been a childhood staple for generation upon generationits the first great western that most of us read. Dime novel was 19th centurys popular paperback deadwood. Knox built an empire on outlandish stories of the lives of western outlaws and circulated thousands of volumes of the amply titled dime novel. Combining marxist literary theory with american labor history, michael denning explores what happened when, in the nineteenth century, working people began to read cheap novels and the fiction question became a class question. The mormon image in literature, dime mormon novels, edited and introduced by michael austin and ardis e. Americas sheep trails history personalities by wentworth, edward norris and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Selected texts selected texts from the series secret service by various authors nick carter, detective.
In many ways, the legend of the wild west was born in dime novels. The war began to emerge in dime novel plots in the 1870s, often as a backdrop for patriotic stories about frontiersmen using their skills as spies or scouts for the union. Download and read online for free ebooks written by dime novel club. Leblanc dime novel bibliography project aims to create a comprehensive online database of dime novels, story papers, reprint libraries and related materials. As evidenced by their name, dime novels were sold for a dime sometimes a nickel, and featured colorful cover illustrations. Dime novels thrived in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the united states. See more ideas about novels, man in love and westerns.
Published in 1860 as the first volume in beadles dime novels series, malaeska is considered to be the first dime novel. Trails of the dime novel terry burns in the late 1800s, twentytwoyearold rick dayton, using an inheritance from his uncle, travels to the west to write its history in a. Get the best deals on dime novel when you shop the largest online selection at. The term referred not only to 10 cent books as described above, but both 15 cent books, and also to story papers, a sort of newspaperlike format that contained multiple stories encompassing detective serials and globetrotting adventures. This guide lists the dime novels held in special collections. Air trails magazine later air trails pictorial and air trails and science frontiers. Series beadles dime novels the dime novel bibliography. Nickels and dimes dime novels from the collections of. Wyatt was chasing some stagecoach robbers outside of tombstone, arizona, and found their recently vacated camp. Erastus beadle published the first dime novel in 1860, and his quick success prompted many other firms to enter the market. In lewis athertons book, the cattle kings, the author points out that mark twain himself described the cowboy as more gunman than ranch worker. Mechanic accents is a widely acclaimed study of american popular fiction and workingclass culture. Stanfords dime novel and story paper collection consists of over 8,000 individual items, and includes long runs of the major dime novel series frank leslies boys of america, happy days, beadles new york dime library, etc. At this time, young readers could spend their five cents to see a motion picture instead of paying to read the latest dime novel.
The beadle collection of dime novels given to the new york public library by dr. Denning begins by describing the economics of dime novel production the culture industry of pulp fiction and the experiences of dime novel authors, churning out thousands of words a week on salacious and exciting themes lifted from the news of real life. Read, highlight, and take notes, across web, tablet, and phone. Dime novels were basically books aimed primarily at immature adults but soon became popular with preteen and teenage boys, and they were largely pulp adventure fiction. Our reproduction of this material does not represent an endorsement of the content. Dime novels were a format of inexpensive popular fiction produced in the united states between 1860 and 1930. Or, following an old trail in popular literature 1929. Judson, whose stories, some based on his own adventures, were. The subject of scorn by moralists in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth, dime novel was originally a brand name, but as has often been true of trademarks in america, it became a generic term and was soon applied to any work of sensational fiction despite the cover price. The youngsters themselves have been placated with the movies, television, and the comics. Typical yellowbacks numbered 321, and new dime novels, with illuminated covers, 310 more. Additional digitized dime novels can be found at northern illinois university and the university of south florida.
In 1946, the first 4 volumes were reissued in red high embossed bindings, with each volume split into two, and the volumes were renumbered. Alger authored over a hundred books for young boys, beginning with ragged dick or street life in new york with the bootblacks. His greatest shadow or jack the jugglers last trail 1896 dime novel. The story of a vanished literature, volume 1 albert johannsen university of oklahoma press, 1950 american fiction. Mar 30, 2017 a dime novel was a cheap and generally sensational tale of adventure sold as popular entertainment in the 1800s. Dime novels were a series of papercovered booklets, published at regular intervals. This was followed the same year with the red revenger.
The rise of the american hero the texas collection. Series beadles new dime novels the dime novel bibliography. Full text of the beadle collection of dime novels given. The last true dime novel series, street and smiths new buffalo bill weekly, stopped publication in 1912 p. Home dime novels in special collections library guides. Dime novel, a type of inexpensive, usually paperback, melodramatic novel of adventure popular in the united states roughly between 1860 and 1915. First, they were all heroes of dime novels and nickel weeklies published during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Buntline of dime novels is a crossword puzzle clue. List of books and articles about dime novels online. Feb 2, 2017 explore jsoldwests board dime novels western, followed by 654 people on. Young wild west running the gauntlet or the pawnee chiefs last shot plus dandy dan of deadwood and his big bonanza every word of the original collectors edition of wild west weekly. The western heroes from the dime novel didnt fade away they simply moved with the audience, becoming the featured stars in the new films and pulp magazines.
Frank merriwells problem, or, the vanishing of elsie new york. For more information about this dime novel, please see the aas catalog. A magazine containing stories, sketches of western life, the dandy dan story is a complete story from wide awake library by an old scout and noname and a great selection of related books, art and. The dime novel is a form of late 19thcentury and early 20thcentury u. October 5, 2014 by fatimasarassoro in uncategorized as buffalo bill was known to be the most successful hunter on the prairies, shortly after his capture of the herd of indian ponies he received an offer from the kansas pacific railroad company to keep their. Available for as little as a nickel or as much as a dime, they opened up leisure reading for the masses in a way previously not possible. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the creative commons cc0 license. The solution of a remarkable case, by a celebrated author the great spy system, or, nick carters promise to the president, by a celebrated author adventures of buffalo bill from boyhood to manhood, by colonel prentiss ingraham. Or following an old trail in popular literature edmund lester pearson, f.
Set in the late 1800s, this fictional novel, based in part on the. Cummings, 1933, by william cleveland miller page images at hathitrust. This chapter examines dime novels and series books as one of the first. The term dime novel has been used as a catchall term for several different but related forms, referring to story papers, five and tencent weeklies, thick book reprints, and sometimes early pulp. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. Or following an old trail in popular literature pearson, edmund lester, darley, f. Dime novels telling the story of the american west.