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From the Collections of Johannsen and LeBlanc

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Publication Date

1882 - 1930
(years)

Genre

  • Western stories (79) + -
  • Detective and mystery stories (18) + -
  • Adventure stories (5) + -

Series

  • Deadwood Dick library (64) + -
  • Deadwood Dick library (London, England) (26) + -
  • Beadle's frontier series (2) + -
  • Beadle's half dime library (1) + -

Publisher

  • M.J. Ivers & Co. (62) + -
  • George Newnes, Limited (26) + -
  • Arthur Westbrook Company (4) + -
  • Beadle and Adams (1872-1898) (1) + -

Topic

  • Cowboys (47) + -
  • Women heroes (35) + -
  • Outlaws (30) + -
  • Gold mines and mining (21) + -
  • Frontier and pioneer life (16) + -
  • Chinese (14) + -
  • Inheritance and succession (13) + -
  • Lakota Indians (13) + -
  • Dueling (12) + -
  • English (11) + -
  • Jews (9) + -
  • Revenge (9) + -
  • Kidnapping (8) + -
  • Treasure troves (8) + -
  • Women outlaws (8) + -
  • Abduction (6) + -
  • African American men (6) + -
  • Dutch (6) + -
  • Gambling (6) + -
  • Women detectives (6) + -
  • Apache Indians (5) + -
  • French (5) + -
  • Ghosts (5) + -
  • Impostors and imposture (5) + -
  • Missing persons (5) + -
  • Murder (5) + -
  • Private investigators (5) + -
  • Shoe shiners (5) + -
  • Cowgirls (4) + -
  • Cults (4) + -
  • Hermits (4) + -
  • Horse stealing (4) + -
  • Indians of North America (4) + -
  • Photographers (4) + -
  • Trials (4) + -
  • Aztecs (3) + -
  • Danites (Mormon Church) (3) + -
  • Escapes (3) + -
  • Executions and executioners (3) + -
  • Jews, German (3) + -
  • Quartz mines and mining (3) + -
  • Spaniards (3) + -
  • Street children (3) + -
  • Undercover operations (3) + -
  • Uxoricide (3) + -
  • Weddings (3) + -
  • Attempted murder (2) + -
  • Bank robberies (2) + -
  • Bankruptcy (2) + -
  • Beheading (2) + -
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Character

  • Deadwood Dick (Fictitious character) (34) + -
  • Calamity Jane, 1856-1903 (18) + -
  • Old Avalanche the Annihilator (Fictitious character) (13) + -
  • Leone Harris (Fictitious character) (11) + -
  • Edith Stone (Fictitious character) (8) + -
  • Rosebud Rob (Fictitious character) (8) + -
  • Baltimore Bess (Fictitious character) (6) + -
  • Sitting Bull, 1831-1890 (5) + -
  • Denver Doll (Fictitious character) (4) + -
  • Sam Slocum (Sierra Sam) (Fictitious character) (4) + -
  • William Bethel (Little Bill) (Fictitious character) (3) + -
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Place

  • Black Hills (S.D. and Wyo.) (15) + -
  • Colorado (10) + -
  • Leadville (Colo.) (10) + -
  • Philadelphia (Pa.) (10) + -
  • United States (6) + -
  • Arizona (5) + -
  • South Dakota (4) + -
  • Yankton (S.D.) (4) + -
  • Idaho (3) + -
  • North Dakota (3) + -
  • Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) (3) + -
  • California (2) + -
  • Cheyenne (Wyo.) (2) + -
  • Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) (2) + -
  • Del Norte (Colo.) (2) + -
  • Denver (Colo.) (2) + -
  • High Plains (U.S.) (2) + -
  • Mexican-American Border Region (2) + -
  • Minnesota (2) + -
  • Nebraska (2) + -
  • New York (N.Y.) (2) + -
  • San Francisco (2) + -
  • San Francisco (Calif.) (2) + -
  • Silverton (Colo.) (2) + -
  • Texas (2) + -
  • Wind River Range (Wyo.) (2) + -
  • Atlantic City (N.J.) (1) + -
  • Durango (Colo.) (1) + -
  • Montana (1) + -
  • Nevada (1) + -
  • Pacific Coast (Calif.) (1) + -
  • Placerville (Calif.) (1) + -
  • Rocky Mountains (1) + -
  • Tombstone (Ariz.) (1) + -
  • Wyoming (1) + -
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Format

  • Nickel weeklies (91) + -
  • Penny dreadfuls (1) + -

Collection

  • Edward T. LeBlanc Collection. Rare Books and Special Collections, Northern Illinois University. (91) + -
  • Johannsen Collection. Rare Books and Special Collections, Northern Illinois University. (2) + -

Query

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Enabled Filters

  • (-) = Wheeler, Edward L. (Edward Lytton), 1854 or 1855-1885

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Deadwood Dick sentenced, or, The terrible vendetta
Colorado Charlie's detective dash, or, The cattle kings
The detective road-agent
Spotter Fritz, or, The store-detective's decoy
Deadwood Dick's mission, or, Cavie, the kidnapped boy
Dumb Dick's pard, or, 'Liza Jane, the girl miner
Deadwood Dick's disguise, or, Wild Walt, the sport
Buck Hawk, detective, or, The messenger boy's fortune
Deadwood Dick trapped, or, Roxey Ralph's ruse
Denver Doll's mine, or, Little Bill's big loss
Denver Doll's partner, or, Big Buckskin, the sport
Denver Doll as detective, or, Little Bill's bold risk
Denver Doll's device, or, The detective queen
The girl sport, or, Jumbo Joe's disguise
Sierra Sam's sentence, or, Little luck at Rough Ranch
Sierra Sam's double, or, The three female detectives
Sierra Sam, the detective
Dick Drew, the miner's son, or, Apollo Bill, the road-agent
The miner sport, or, Sugar-coated Sam's claim
Jimtown sport, or, Gypsy Jack in Colorado, a story of Durango
The frontier detective, or, Sierra Sam's scheme
Detective Josh Grim, or, The young gladiator's game
The ventriloquist detective
Arab detective, or, Snoozer, the boy sharp
Deadwood Dick's ward, or, The Black Hills Jezebel
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