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Publication Date

1860 - 1925
(years)

Genre

  • Historical fiction (9) + -
  • Detective and mystery stories (7) + -
  • Sea stories (7) + -
  • Adventure stories (5) + -
  • American Revolutionary War stories (5) + -
  • Romance fiction (5) + -
  • War stories (4) + -
  • Bildungsromans (2) + -
  • Pirates and privateering stories (2) + -
  • Bandit, outlaw, and highwayman stories (1) + -
  • Civil War stories (1) + -
  • Fire fighters and firefighting stories (1) + -
  • Spy stories (1) + -
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Series

  • Pluck and luck (21) + -
  • Five cent wide awake library (4) + -
  • Waverley library (quarto edition) (3) + -
  • Beadle's dime novels (2) + -

Author

  • Wade, William (9) + -
  • Gordon, James A., General (6) + -
  • Wilson, Thomas H., Captain (5) + -
  • Hemyng, Bracebridge, 1841-1901 (4) + -
  • Appleton, Horace (3) + -
  • Bertrew, Berton (3) + -
  • Braddon, Paul (3) + -
  • Richards, J. P. (3) + -
  • Sherman, John (3) + -
  • Armstrong, Alexander (2) + -
  • Denison, Mary A. (Mary Andrews), 1826-1911 (2) + -
  • Montgomery, Richard R. (2) + -
  • Southworth, Arabella (2) + -
  • Arnold, Allan (1) + -
  • Austin, Howard (1) + -
  • Clyde, Kit (1) + -
  • Draper, Allyn (1) + -
  • Warden, Ex-Firechief (1) + -
  • Willett, Edward, 1830-1889 (1) + -
  • Williams, Gus, 1847-1915 (1) + -
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Publisher

  • Tousey, Frank (18) + -
  • Wolff, Harry E. (7) + -
  • Beadle and Adams (1872-1898) (3) + -
  • Beadle and Company (1) + -
  • Irwin P. Beadle & Co. (1859-1860) (1) + -

Topic

  • Escapes (12) + -
  • Rescues (9) + -
  • History (6) + -
  • Enemies (5) + -
  • Man-woman relationships (4) + -
  • Traitors (4) + -
  • Battles (3) + -
  • Brigands and robbers (3) + -
  • Pirates (3) + -
  • Revenge (3) + -
  • American loyalists (2) + -
  • Character tests (2) + -
  • Conduct of life (2) + -
  • Cossacks (2) + -
  • Courage (2) + -
  • Crimean War, 1853-1856 (2) + -
  • Dictators (2) + -
  • Drowning (2) + -
  • Dueling (2) + -
  • Inheritance and succession (2) + -
  • Privateering (2) + -
  • Scouts (Reconnaissance) (2) + -
  • Secret societies (2) + -
  • Signals and signaling (2) + -
  • Actors (1) + -
  • Arabs (1) + -
  • Attempted murder (1) + -
  • Balls (Parties) (1) + -
  • Bank robberies (1) + -
  • Battleships (1) + -
  • Brothers and sisters (1) + -
  • Captivity (1) + -
  • Caravans (1) + -
  • Counterfeits and counterfeiting (1) + -
  • Daggers (1) + -
  • Deception (1) + -
  • Diamonds (1) + -
  • Disguise (1) + -
  • Dynamite (1) + -
  • Eskimos (1) + -
  • Explosions (1) + -
  • Fathers and sons (1) + -
  • Fire fighters (1) + -
  • Fire stations (1) + -
  • Fires (1) + -
  • Fortune (1) + -
  • Galleons (1) + -
  • Gold mines and mining (1) + -
  • Gunfights (1) + -
  • Harems (1) + -
  • Heiresses (1) + -
  • Heroes (1) + -
  • Indians of North America (1) + -
  • Irish Americans (1) + -
  • Islands (1) + -
  • Jealousy (1) + -
  • Ladders (1) + -
  • Lighthouses (1) + -
  • Men (1) + -
  • Messengers (1) + -
  • Mexican War, 1846-1848 (1) + -
  • Midshipmen (1) + -
  • Mutiny (1) + -
  • Oaths (1) + -
  • Outlaws (1) + -
  • Poisoning (1) + -
  • Prima donnas (Singers) (1) + -
  • Resuscitation (1) + -
  • Retribution (1) + -
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Character

  • Harkaway, Jack (Fictitious character) (2) + -
  • Harkaway, Jack, Jr. (Fictitious character) (2) + -
  • Nicholas I, Emperor of Russia, 1796-1855 (2) + -
  • Washington, George, 1732-1799 (2) + -
  • Wayne, Anthony, 1745-1796 (2) + -
  • Marion, Francis, 1732-1795 (1) + -

Place

  • United States (6) + -
  • Cuba (2) + -
  • New York (N.Y.) (2) + -
  • Russia (2) + -
  • Turkey (2) + -
  • Valley Forge (Pa.) (2) + -
  • Australia (1) + -
  • Boston (Mass.) (1) + -
  • California, Northern (1) + -
  • Confederate States of America (1) + -
  • Greece (1) + -
  • Ireland (1) + -
  • Northwest Passage (1) + -
  • Paris (France) (1) + -
  • Taos (N.M.) (1) + -
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Format

  • Nickel weeklies (28) + -
  • Dime novels (2) + -

Collection

  • Edward T. LeBlanc Collection. Rare Books and Special Collections, Northern Illinois University. (23) + -
  • Johannsen Collection. Rare Books and Special Collections, Northern Illinois University. (7) + -

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The boy privateer captain, or, Lost on a nameless sea
The doomed city, or, The hidden foe of Plummerdale
Young Jack Harkaway and the counterfeiters
Young Jack Harkaway and the Arabs
Loyal to the last, or, Fighting for the Stars and Stripes
Jack Harkaway and the convicts
Jack Harkaway's peril
Percy Greville, the scout of Valley Forge
Percy Greville, the scout of Valley Forge
The seven white bears, or, The band of fate
The floating gold mine, or, Adrift in an unknown sea
Roddy the call boy, or, Born to be an actor
Sold to the sultan, or, The strange adventures of two Yankee middies
Dave and the diamond, or, The boy who came from Brazil
Afloat with Captain Kidd, or, A boy among the pirates
An Irish-American, or, Dan Redmond's adventures in search of his father
The Bullet Charmer
Whirlwind Jack, or, Captain Heald's boy messenger
The boy privateer captain, or, Lost on a nameless sea
Rattling Rube, or, The jolly young scout and spy
The seven white bears, or, The band of fate
High Ladder Harry, the young fireman of Freeport, or, Always at the top
Icebound, or, Among the floes
At 12 o'clock, or, The mystery of the lighthouse, a story of the revolution
Blackeyes, or, The three captives
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