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Publication Date

1890 - 1930
(years)

Genre

  • Western stories (9) + -
  • Bildungsromans (2) + -
  • Fire fighters and firefighting stories (1) + -
  • Sea stories (1) + -

Series

  • Deadwood Dick library (14) + -
  • New Buffalo Bill weekly (3) + -
  • 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) + -
  • Ingraham, Prentiss, 1843-1904 (3) + -
  • Taylor, Edward C. (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 (7) + -
  • Wolff, Harry E. (3) + -
  • George Newnes, Limited (1) + -

Topic

  • Private investigators (4) + -
  • Indians of North America (3) + -
  • 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) + -
  • Pawnee Indians (1) + -
  • Pirates (1) + -
  • Polygyny (1) + -
  • Pueblo Indians (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) + -
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Character

  • Sam Slocum (Sierra Sam) (Fictitious character) (4) + -
  • Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917 (3) + -
  • 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 (25) + -

Query

  • (-) *:*

Enabled Filters

  • (-) ≠ Harkaway, Jack (Fictitious character)
  • (-) ≠ Crockett, Davy, 1786-1836
  • (-) = Edward T. LeBlanc Collection. Rare Books and Special Collections, Northern Illinois University.
  • (-) ≠ Tousey, Frank
  • (-) = Detective and mystery stories
  • (-) ≠ New York (N.Y.)

Sort

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

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