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Publication Date

1879 - 1930
(years)

Genre

  • Western stories (9) + -
  • Bildungsromans (4) + -
  • Fire fighters and firefighting stories (2) + -
  • Sea stories (2) + -

Series

  • Deadwood Dick library (16) + -
  • Pluck and luck (6) + -
  • New Nick Carter weekly (New York, N.Y. : 1903) (5) + -
  • Five cent wide awake library (3) + -
  • New Buffalo Bill weekly (3) + -
  • Deadwood Dick library (London, England) (1) + -
  • Nugget library (1) + -

Author

  • Wheeler, Edward L. (Edward Lytton), 1854 or 1855-1885 (16) + -
  • Wade, William (6) + -
  • Carter, Nick (5) + -
  • Ingraham, Prentiss, 1843-1904 (3) + -
  • Taylor, Edward C. (3) + -
  • Armstrong, Alexander (2) + -
  • Hemyng, Bracebridge, 1841-1901 (2) + -
  • Warden, Ex-Firechief (2) + -
  • Arnold, Allan (1) + -
  • Ballou, Maturin Murray, 1820-1895 (1) + -
  • Dowd, Jno. B. (John B.), 1841-1906 (1) + -
  • Draper, Allyn (1) + -
  • Old scout (1) + -
  • Richards, J. P. (1) + -
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Publisher

  • M.J. Ivers & Co. (16) + -
  • Street & Smith (9) + -
  • Wolff, Harry E. (6) + -
  • Tousey & Small (2) + -
  • George Newnes, Limited (1) + -

Topic

  • Inheritance and succession (6) + -
  • Murder (6) + -
  • Missing persons (5) + -
  • Private investigators (5) + -
  • Rescues (4) + -
  • Shoe shiners (4) + -
  • Impostors and imposture (3) + -
  • Indians of North America (3) + -
  • Revenge (3) + -
  • Women detectives (3) + -
  • Women heroes (3) + -
  • Women outlaws (3) + -
  • African American men (2) + -
  • Bank robberies (2) + -
  • Brigands and robbers (2) + -
  • Child detectives (2) + -
  • Chinese (2) + -
  • Escapes (2) + -
  • Fathers and sons (2) + -
  • Female offenders (2) + -
  • Fire fighters (2) + -
  • Fires (2) + -
  • French (2) + -
  • Gambling (2) + -
  • Gold mines and mining (2) + -
  • Indentured servants (2) + -
  • Investigation (2) + -
  • Jews, German (2) + -
  • Kidnapping (2) + -
  • Mentally ill women (2) + -
  • Outlaws (2) + -
  • Pirates (2) + -
  • Street children (2) + -
  • Wealth (2) + -
  • Abandoned children (1) + -
  • Abandoned houses (1) + -
  • Accidents (1) + -
  • Actors (1) + -
  • Actresses (1) + -
  • Alcoholics (1) + -
  • Amphitheaters (1) + -
  • Apparitions (1) + -
  • Arabs (1) + -
  • Arson (1) + -
  • Awards (1) + -
  • Body snatching (1) + -
  • Brothers (1) + -
  • Caves (1) + -
  • Children (1) + -
  • Church buildings (1) + -
  • Circus (1) + -
  • Clubs (1) + -
  • Conduct of life (1) + -
  • Conspiracies (1) + -
  • Counterfeiters (1) + -
  • Cults (1) + -
  • Danites (Mormon Church) (1) + -
  • Debtor and creditor (1) + -
  • Department stores (1) + -
  • Disguise (1) + -
  • Dueling (1) + -
  • Frontier and pioneer life (1) + -
  • Heroes (1) + -
  • Interpersonal relations (1) + -
  • Jews (1) + -
  • Lakota Indians (1) + -
  • Light (1) + -
  • Mephistopheles (Legendary character) (1) + -
  • Mills and mill-work (1) + -
  • Mistaken identity (1) + -
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Character

  • Carter, Nick (5) + -
  • Sam Slocum (Sierra Sam) (Fictitious character) (4) + -
  • Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917 (3) + -
  • Harkaway, Jack (Fictitious character) (2) + -
  • Denver Doll (Fictitious character) (1) + -
  • William Bethel (Little Bill) (Fictitious character) (1) + -

Place

  • New York (N.Y.) (8) + -
  • 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) + -
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Format

  • Nickel weeklies (35) + -

Query

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Enabled Filters

  • (-) ≠ Colorado
  • (-) ≠ Crockett, Davy, 1786-1836
  • (-) = Edward T. LeBlanc Collection. Rare Books and Special Collections, Northern Illinois University.
  • (-) ≠ Tousey, Frank
  • (-) = Detective and mystery stories

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100 feet above the housetops, or, The mystery of the old church steeple
A clue from the clouds, or, Nick Carter's mysterious evidence
Bonanza Bill, the man tracker, or, The secret twelve
Boss Bob, the king of bootblacks, or, The pawnbrokers plot
Buck Hawk, detective, or, The messenger boy's fortune
Buffalo Bill and the Pawnee prophet, or, Pawnee Bill among friends and foes
Buffalo Bill's pueblo foes, or, Pawnee Bill at the Indian fiesta
Buffalo Bill's witchcraft, or, Pawnee Bill and the snake Aztecs
Death-face, the detective, or, Life and love in New York
Denver Doll as detective, or, Little Bill's bold risk
Detective Josh Grim, or, The young gladiator's game
Harkaway to the rescue
Harkaway, the avenger
Lost in the great basin, or, The wonderful underground city
New York Nell, the boy-girl detective, or, Old Blakesly's money
Phil, the boy fireman, or, Through flames to victory
Shiner, the New-York bootblack, or, The secret of a boy's life
Sierra Sam's double, or, The three female detectives
Sierra Sam's sentence, or, Little luck at Rough Ranch
Sierra Sam, the detective
Spotter Fritz, or, The store-detective's decoy
The black flag of piracy, or, Nick Carter's daring venture
The child of the jungle, or, Nick Carter's ingenious ruse
The detective road-agent
The frontier detective, or, Sierra Sam's scheme
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