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Publication Date

1890 - 1930
(years)

Genre

  • Western stories (6) + -
  • Bildungsromans (2) + -
  • Fire fighters and firefighting stories (1) + -
  • Sea stories (1) + -

Series

  • Deadwood Dick library (14) + -
  • New Nick Carter weekly (New York, N.Y. : 1903) (3) + -
  • Pluck and luck (3) + -
  • Deadwood Dick library (London, England) (1) + -
  • Nugget library (1) + -

Author

  • Wheeler, Edward L. (Edward Lytton), 1854 or 1855-1885 (14) + -
  • Carter, Nick (3) + -
  • Wade, William (3) + -
  • Armstrong, Alexander (1) + -
  • Ballou, Maturin Murray, 1820-1895 (1) + -
  • Draper, Allyn (1) + -
  • Old scout (1) + -
  • Warden, Ex-Firechief (1) + -

Publisher

  • M.J. Ivers & Co. (14) + -
  • Street & Smith (4) + -
  • Wolff, Harry E. (3) + -
  • George Newnes, Limited (1) + -

Topic

  • Private investigators (4) + -
  • Inheritance and succession (3) + -
  • Missing persons (3) + -
  • Shoe shiners (3) + -
  • Women outlaws (3) + -
  • African American men (2) + -
  • Bank robberies (2) + -
  • Chinese (2) + -
  • Fathers and sons (2) + -
  • Female offenders (2) + -
  • French (2) + -
  • Gambling (2) + -
  • Gold mines and mining (2) + -
  • Impostors and imposture (2) + -
  • Indentured servants (2) + -
  • Jews, German (2) + -
  • Kidnapping (2) + -
  • Mentally ill women (2) + -
  • Murder (2) + -
  • Outlaws (2) + -
  • Rescues (2) + -
  • Revenge (2) + -
  • Women detectives (2) + -
  • Women heroes (2) + -
  • Abandoned children (1) + -
  • Abandoned houses (1) + -
  • Actresses (1) + -
  • Amphitheaters (1) + -
  • Arabs (1) + -
  • Arson (1) + -
  • Body snatching (1) + -
  • Caves (1) + -
  • Child detectives (1) + -
  • Children (1) + -
  • Church buildings (1) + -
  • Circus (1) + -
  • Counterfeiters (1) + -
  • Cults (1) + -
  • Danites (Mormon Church) (1) + -
  • Debtor and creditor (1) + -
  • Department stores (1) + -
  • Disguise (1) + -
  • Dueling (1) + -
  • Fire fighters (1) + -
  • Fires (1) + -
  • Frontier and pioneer life (1) + -
  • Heroes (1) + -
  • Jews (1) + -
  • Lakota Indians (1) + -
  • Light (1) + -
  • Mills and mill-work (1) + -
  • Money laundering (1) + -
  • Mormons (1) + -
  • Pirates (1) + -
  • Polygyny (1) + -
  • Quartz mines and mining (1) + -
  • Remorse (1) + -
  • Robbery (1) + -
  • Smuggling (1) + -
  • Spaniards (1) + -
  • Spires (1) + -
  • Street children (1) + -
  • Sumatran orangutan (1) + -
  • Train robberies (1) + -
  • Treasure troves (1) + -
  • Vendetta (1) + -
  • Weddings (1) + -
  • Women school principals (1) + -
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Character

  • Sam Slocum (Sierra Sam) (Fictitious character) (4) + -
  • Carter, Nick (3) + -
  • Denver Doll (Fictitious character) (1) + -
  • William Bethel (Little Bill) (Fictitious character) (1) + -

Place

  • Philadelphia (Pa.) (6) + -
  • California (2) + -
  • Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) (2) + -
  • San Francisco (2) + -
  • San Francisco (Calif.) (2) + -
  • Arizona (1) + -
  • Atlantic City (N.J.) (1) + -
  • Boston (Mass.) (1) + -
  • Cuba (1) + -
  • Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) (1) + -

Format

  • Nickel weeklies (22) + -

Query

  • (-) *:*

Enabled Filters

  • (-) ≠ New Buffalo Bill weekly
  • (-) ≠ Harkaway, Jack (Fictitious character)
  • (-) = Edward T. LeBlanc Collection. Rare Books and Special Collections, Northern Illinois University.
  • (-) ≠ Tousey, Frank
  • (-) = Detective and mystery stories
  • (-) ≠ New York (N.Y.)

Sort

  • Title
  • Date
  • Number
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Phil, the boy fireman, or, Through flames to victory
100 feet above the housetops, or, The mystery of the old church steeple
Lost in the great basin, or, The wonderful underground city
The vampire's prey, or, Nick Carter's blow at policy
The child of the jungle, or, Nick Carter's ingenious ruse
The black flag of piracy, or, Nick Carter's daring venture
Tried for his life, or, The chain of guilt
The detective road-agent
Spotter Fritz, or, The store-detective's decoy
Buck Hawk, detective, or, The messenger boy's fortune
Denver Doll as detective, or, Little Bill's bold risk
Sierra Sam's sentence, or, Little luck at Rough Ranch
Sierra Sam's double, or, The three female detectives
Sierra Sam, the detective
The frontier detective, or, Sierra Sam's scheme
Detective Josh Grim, or, The young gladiator's game
The ventriloquist detective
Tony Fox, the ferret, or, Boss Bob's boss job
Boss Bob, the king of bootblacks, or, The pawnbrokers plot
The league of twelve
Bonanza Bill, the man tracker, or, The secret twelve
Watch-eye, the shadow, or, Arabs and angels of a great city

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