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Publication Date

1860 - 1929
(years)

Genre

  • Historical fiction (38) + -
  • War stories (32) + -
  • Civil War stories (21) + -
  • American Revolutionary War stories (7) + -
  • Sea stories (6) + -
  • Western stories (6) + -
  • Adventure stories (3) + -
  • Spy stories (3) + -
  • Detective and mystery stories (2) + -
  • Humorous stories (2) + -

Series

  • Blue and gray weekly (19) + -
  • Pluck and luck (14) + -
  • Five cent wide awake library (10) + -
  • Deadwood Dick library (5) + -
  • Nugget library (2) + -
  • Beadle's dime novels (1) + -
  • Deadwood Dick library (London, England) (1) + -
  • New York detective library (1) + -

Author

  • Lee, Harry, Lieut. (19) + -
  • Gordon, James A., General (8) + -
  • Wade, William (5) + -
  • Wheeler, Edward L. (Edward Lytton), 1854 or 1855-1885 (5) + -
  • Old scout (4) + -
  • Braddon, Paul (2) + -
  • Emmet, H. C. (2) + -
  • Small, George G. (2) + -
  • Stevens, D. W., 1849-1901 (2) + -
  • Appleton, Horace (1) + -
  • Arnold, Allan (1) + -
  • Bertrew, Berton (1) + -
  • Buntline, Ned, 1822 or 1823-1886 (1) + -
  • Clyde, Kit (1) + -
  • Davison, Henry Pomeroy, 1867-1922 (1) + -
  • Eyster, William R. (William Reynolds), 1841-1918 (1) + -
  • Granville, George W., Captain (1) + -
  • Howard, Police Captain (1) + -
  • Pad, Peter (1) + -
  • Richards, J. P. (1) + -
  • Scott, J. R. (1) + -
  • Sherman, John (1) + -
  • Smiley, Sam (1) + -
  • St. John, Percy B. (Percy Bolingbroke), 1821-1889 (1) + -
  • Taylor, R.M. (1) + -
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Publisher

  • Tousey, Frank (38) + -
  • Wolff, Harry E. (6) + -
  • M.J. Ivers & Co. (5) + -
  • Street & Smith (2) + -
  • Beadle and Company (1) + -
  • George Newnes, Limited (1) + -

Topic

  • History (40) + -
  • Escapes (6) + -
  • Indians of North America (5) + -
  • Privateering (5) + -
  • Battles (4) + -
  • Enemies (4) + -
  • Women heroes (4) + -
  • American loyalists (3) + -
  • Conduct of life (3) + -
  • English (3) + -
  • Guerrillas (3) + -
  • Prisoners (3) + -
  • Rescues (3) + -
  • Revenge (3) + -
  • Traitors (3) + -
  • Young men (3) + -
  • Blacks (2) + -
  • British (2) + -
  • Courage (2) + -
  • Cowboys (2) + -
  • Crow Indians (2) + -
  • Dakota Indians (2) + -
  • Dueling (2) + -
  • Dutch (2) + -
  • Indians (2) + -
  • Irish (2) + -
  • Lakota Indians (2) + -
  • Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876 (2) + -
  • Pioneers (2) + -
  • Savage's Station, Battle of, Va., 1862 (2) + -
  • Scouts and scouting (2) + -
  • Women outlaws (2) + -
  • Ambushes and surprises (1) + -
  • Ball's Bluff, Battle of, Va., 1861 (1) + -
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (1) + -
  • Beaver Dam Creek, Battle of, Va., 1862 (1) + -
  • Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861 (1) + -
  • Bullying (1) + -
  • Capitulations, Military (1) + -
  • Captivity (1) + -
  • Cavalry (1) + -
  • Chinese (1) + -
  • Counterfeits and counterfeiting (1) + -
  • Danites (Mormon Church) (1) + -
  • Disguise (1) + -
  • Dwarfism (1) + -
  • Executions and executioners (1) + -
  • Families (1) + -
  • Ferries (1) + -
  • Flagellation (1) + -
  • Fort Donelson, Battle of, Tenn., 1862 (1) + -
  • French (1) + -
  • Friendship (1) + -
  • Ghosts (1) + -
  • Gold mines and mining (1) + -
  • Horsemen and horsewomen (1) + -
  • Household employees (1) + -
  • Jews (1) + -
  • Kidnapping (1) + -
  • Kyphosis (1) + -
  • Liberty (1) + -
  • Lighthouses (1) + -
  • Malvern Hill, Battle of, Va., 1862 (1) + -
  • Massacres (1) + -
  • Military deserters (1) + -
  • Military supplies (1) + -
  • Mines and mineral resources (1) + -
  • Mining corporations (1) + -
  • Naval operations (1) + -
  • Naval operations, American (1) + -
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Character

  • Clark, Jack (Fictitious character) (19) + -
  • Prentiss, Will (Fictitious character) (19) + -
  • United States. Army of the Potomac (17) + -
  • Confederate States of America. Army of Northern Virginia (16) + -
  • Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 (7) + -
  • Beauregard, G. T., 1818-1893 (5) + -
  • McClellan, George B., 1826-1885 (4) + -
  • Deadwood Dick (Fictitious character) (3) + -
  • Lee, Robert E., 1807-1870 (3) + -
  • Washington, George, 1732-1799 (3) + -
  • Calamity Jane, 1856-1903 (2) + -
  • Custer, George A. (George Armstrong), 1839-1876 (2) + -
  • Halleck, H. W., 1815-1872 (2) + -
  • Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 (2) + -
  • Longstreet, James, 1821-1904 (2) + -
  • Magruder, John Bankhead, 1807-1871 (2) + -
  • Old Avalanche the Annihilator (Fictitious character) (2) + -
  • Sherman, William T., 1820-1891 (2) + -
  • Sitting Bull, 1831-1890 (2) + -
  • Stuart, Jeb, 1833-1864 (2) + -
  • United States. Navy (2) + -
  • Abercromby, James, 1706-1781 (1) + -
  • Arnold, Benedict, 1741-1801 (1) + -
  • Bragg, Braxton, 1817-1876 (1) + -
  • Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (U.S.) (1) + -
  • Buckner, Simon Bolivar, 1823-1914 (1) + -
  • Butler, Benjamin F., 1818-1893 (1) + -
  • Confederate States of America (1) + -
  • Floyd, John B., 1806-1863 (1) + -
  • Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863 (1) + -
  • Johnston, Albert Sidney, 1803-1862 (1) + -
  • Marion, Francis, 1732-1795 (1) + -
  • Merritt, Wesley, 1834-1910 (1) + -
  • Montcalm de Saint-Véran, Louis-Joseph, marquis de, 1712-1759 (1) + -
  • Pillow, Gideon Johnson, 1806-1878 (1) + -
  • Smith, William Farrar, 1824-1903 (1) + -
  • Sumter, Thomas, 1734-1832 (1) + -
  • United States. Pacific Railway Commission (1) + -
  • Wayne, Anthony, 1745-1796 (1) + -
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Place

  • Atlantic Ocean (2) + -
  • Corinth (Miss.) (2) + -
  • High Plains (U.S.) (2) + -
  • Leadville (Colo.) (2) + -
  • Nebraska (2) + -
  • New York (N.Y.) (2) + -
  • North Dakota (2) + -
  • South Carolina (2) + -
  • Virginia (2) + -
  • Atlantic Coast (U.S.) (1) + -
  • Black Hills (S.D. and Wyo.) (1) + -
  • Boston (Mass.) (1) + -
  • Fort Frederick (Me.) (1) + -
  • Leesburg (Va.) (1) + -
  • Long Island Sound (N.Y. and Conn.) (1) + -
  • Pacific Coast (Calif.) (1) + -
  • Placerville (Calif.) (1) + -
  • Salem (Mass.) (1) + -
  • Wind River Valley (Wyo.) (1) + -
  • Wisconsin (1) + -
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Format

  • Nickel weeklies (52) + -
  • Dime novels (1) + -

Collection

  • Johannsen Collection. Rare Books and Special Collections, Northern Illinois University. (1) + -

Query

  • (-) *:*

Enabled Filters

  • (-) ≠ Cherokee Indians
  • (-) ≠ Crockett, Davy, 1786-1836
  • (-) = United States
  • (-) = Edward T. LeBlanc Collection. Rare Books and Special Collections, Northern Illinois University.
  • (-) ≠ Scouts (Reconnaissance)

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A poor Irish boy, or, Fighting his own way
Against great odds, or, The boys in blue repulsed
Arnold's shadow, or, The traitor's nemesis
At 12 o'clock, or, The mystery of the lighthouse, a story of the revolution
At Cedar Mountain, or, The boys in gray with Stonewall Jackson
At Fort Donelson, or, The boys in blue's great charge
At Pittsburg Landing, or, The boys in blue's greatest battle
At the front, or, The boys in gray in battle
Before Richmond, or, The boys in gray's great trust
Between two fires, or, The boys in blue cut off
Beyond the "dead line", or, The boys in gray besieged
Bivouac and battle, or, The boys in gray's hard campaign
Captain Tom Drake, or, The young privateers
Cedar swamp, or, Wild Nat's brigade
Chasing the enemy, or, The boys in blue in hot pursuit
Clarence Rhett, or, The cruise of a privateer
Custer's last shot, or, The boy trailer of the Little Horn
Deadwood Dick's disguise, or, Wild Walt, the sport
Deadwood Dick's mission, or, Cavie, the kidnapped boy
Deadwood Dick's ward, or, The Black Hills Jezebel
Driven back, or, The boys in blue's clever retreat
Forced to surrender, or, The boys in gray's hard luck
Held at bay, or, The boys in gray baffled
Hemmed in, or, The boys in blue's hard fight
Holding the line, or, The boys in blue's great defence
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