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Publication Date

1860 - 1929
(years)

Genre

  • Bildungsromans (7) + -
  • Western stories (7) + -
  • Adventure stories (3) + -
  • Romance fiction (3) + -
  • Historical fiction (2) + -
  • Sea stories (2) + -
  • War stories (2) + -
  • Ghost stories (1) + -
  • Science fiction (1) + -
  • Success stories (1) + -

Series

  • Beadle's dime novels (9) + -
  • Fame and fortune weekly (6) + -
  • Beadle's new dime novels (5) + -
  • Five cent wide awake library (3) + -
  • Pluck and luck (1) + -

Author

  • Self-made man, 1853-1915 (6) + -
  • Garne, Gaston (5) + -
  • Duganne, A. J. H. (Augustine Joseph Hickey), 1823-1884 (3) + -
  • Aiken, Albert W., 1846-1894 (2) + -
  • Hamilton, W. J., 1843-1892 (2) + -
  • Whittaker, Frederick, 1838-1889 (2) + -
  • "Noname" (1) + -
  • Appleton, Horace (1) + -
  • Austin, Howard (1) + -
  • Badger, Jos. E. (Joseph Edward), 1848-1909 (1) + -
  • Braddon, Paul (1) + -
  • Emerald, John (1) + -
  • Emmet, H. C. (1) + -
  • Hall, William Jared (1) + -
  • Hazard, Harry (1) + -
  • King, Ed (1) + -
  • Richards, J. P. (1) + -
  • St. John, Percy B. (Percy Bolingbroke), 1821-1889 (1) + -
  • Wade, William (1) + -
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Publisher

  • Beadle and Adams (1872-1898) (7) + -
  • Beadle and Company (6) + -
  • Tousey, Frank (5) + -
  • Wolff, Harry E. (4) + -
  • Irwin P. Beadle & Co. (1859-1860) (1) + -
  • Westbury Publishing Co., Inc. (1) + -

Topic

  • History (5) + -
  • Mexicans (5) + -
  • Aztecs (4) + -
  • Comanche Indians (4) + -
  • Gold mines and mining (4) + -
  • Treasure troves (4) + -
  • Gold (3) + -
  • Apache Indians (2) + -
  • Guardian and ward (2) + -
  • Indians of North America (2) + -
  • Mexican War, 1846-1848 (2) + -
  • Outlaws (2) + -
  • Abduction (1) + -
  • African Americans (1) + -
  • Airships (1) + -
  • Boundaries (1) + -
  • Conquerors (1) + -
  • Courtship (1) + -
  • Creoles (1) + -
  • Cult (1) + -
  • Day laborers (1) + -
  • Deserts (1) + -
  • Despair (1) + -
  • Electric vehicles (1) + -
  • Fire-worshipers (1) + -
  • Frontier and pioneer life (1) + -
  • Germans (1) + -
  • Guerrillas (1) + -
  • Gunfights (1) + -
  • Indians of Mexico (1) + -
  • Inventors (1) + -
  • Miners (1) + -
  • Mirages (1) + -
  • Oases (1) + -
  • Palaces (1) + -
  • Pirates (1) + -
  • Prophecy (1) + -
  • Prophets (1) + -
  • Religion (1) + -
  • Resurrection (1) + -
  • Scouts (Reconnaissance) (1) + -
  • Shipwrecks (1) + -
  • Silver mines and mining (1) + -
  • Spaniards (1) + -
  • Sun worship (1) + -
  • Trappers (1) + -
  • Victims (1) + -
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Character

  • Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico, 1832-1867 (1) + -
  • Montezuma II, Emperor of Mexico, approximately 1480-1520 (1) + -
  • Reade, Frank, Jr. (Fictitious character) (1) + -

Place

  • Texas (4) + -
  • Gila River (N.M. and Ariz.) (2) + -
  • Jornada del Muerto Road (N.M.) (1) + -
  • Sierra Madre (Mexico) (1) + -
  • United States (1) + -

Format

  • Dime novels (14) + -
  • Nickel weeklies (10) + -

Collection

  • Johannsen Collection. Rare Books and Special Collections, Northern Illinois University. (15) + -
  • Edward T. LeBlanc Collection. Rare Books and Special Collections, Northern Illinois University. (9) + -

Query

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Enabled Filters

  • (-) = Mexico

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A pirate's treasure, or, The secret of the three wrecks
The gold hunters of Mexico, or, The prairie phantom
Dick Hadley's mine, or, The boy gold diggers of Mexico
Among the fire worshipers, or, Two New York boys in Mexico
Frank Reade, Jr., and his electric air yacht, or, The great inventor among the Aztecs
A million in gold, or, The treasure of Santa Cruz
A golden risk, or, The young miners of Della Cruz
A golden risk, or, The young miners of Della Cruz
The crested serpent, or, The white tiger of the tropics
Single Hand, the Comanche Attila, or, The chaparral rangers
The white gladiator, or, Manola, the sun-child
The red prince, or, The last of the Aztecs
The Red Coyote, or, Lupah, the Flower of the Prairie
The white canoe, or, The spirit of the lake
Putnam Pomfret's ward, or, A Vermonter's adventures in Mexico
Single Hand, the Comanche Attila, or, The chaparral rangers
Sonora Ben, or, The mountain of gold
The Red Coyote, or, Lupah, the flower of the prairie
Doing his level best, or, Working his way up
Putnam Pomfret's ward, or, A Vermonter's adventures in Mexico
Harry Hale
The peon prince, or, The Yankee knight-errant
The Texan scout, or, The Jarocho's sister
The slave sculptor, or, The prophetess of the secret chambers

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