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Publication Date

1895 - 1926
(years)

Genre

  • Bildungsromans (7) + -
  • Detective and mystery stories (6) + -
  • Western stories (4) + -
  • Sea stories (3) + -
  • Adventure stories (2) + -
  • Railroad stories (2) + -
  • Temperance stories (2) + -
  • Domestic fiction (1) + -
  • Fire fighters and firefighting stories (1) + -
  • Pastoral fiction (1) + -
  • Pirates and privateering stories (1) + -
  • Success stories (1) + -
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Series

  • Pluck and luck (13) + -
  • Fame and fortune weekly (4) + -
  • Five cent wide awake library (3) + -
  • Deadwood Dick library (1) + -

Author

  • Austin, Howard (4) + -
  • Garne, Gaston (4) + -
  • Merritt, James C. (4) + -
  • Self-made man, 1853-1915 (4) + -
  • Hemyng, Bracebridge, 1841-1901 (2) + -
  • Richards, J. P. (2) + -
  • Wade, William (2) + -
  • Ah-look, Commodore (1) + -
  • Appleton, Horace (1) + -
  • Armstrong, Alexander (1) + -
  • Arnold, Allan (1) + -
  • Dowd, Jno. B. (John B.), 1841-1906 (1) + -
  • King, Ed (1) + -
  • Montgomery, Richard R. (1) + -
  • Shackleford, H. K. (Harvey King), 1841-1906 (1) + -
  • Stevens, D. W., 1849-1901 (1) + -
  • Warden, Ex-Firechief (1) + -
  • Wheeler, Edward L. (Edward Lytton), 1854 or 1855-1885 (1) + -
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Publisher

  • Tousey, Frank (15) + -
  • Wolff, Harry E. (5) + -
  • M.J. Ivers & Co. (1) + -

Topic

  • Escapes (7) + -
  • Murder (7) + -
  • Rescues (5) + -
  • Conduct of life (3) + -
  • Young men (3) + -
  • Gorilla (2) + -
  • Heroes (2) + -
  • Lion (2) + -
  • Locomotive engineers (2) + -
  • Pirates (2) + -
  • Railroad trains (2) + -
  • Temperance (2) + -
  • Accidents (1) + -
  • African American men (1) + -
  • Alcoholics (1) + -
  • Alcoholism (1) + -
  • Attorney and client (1) + -
  • Awards (1) + -
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (1) + -
  • Bridegrooms (1) + -
  • Brothers (1) + -
  • Bulls (1) + -
  • Canoes and canoeing (1) + -
  • Card games (1) + -
  • Clerks (Retail trade) (1) + -
  • Combat (1) + -
  • Courage (1) + -
  • Crosses (1) + -
  • Department stores (1) + -
  • Disappeared persons (1) + -
  • Earthquakes (1) + -
  • Errors (1) + -
  • False imprisonment (1) + -
  • Farmers (1) + -
  • Fathers and sons (1) + -
  • Fire (1) + -
  • Fire departments (1) + -
  • Fire fighters (1) + -
  • Fires (1) + -
  • Fortune-tellers (1) + -
  • Fraud (1) + -
  • French (1) + -
  • Friendship (1) + -
  • Gambling (1) + -
  • Gems (1) + -
  • Gold coins (1) + -
  • Grizzly bear (1) + -
  • Gunshot wounds (1) + -
  • Hand-to-hand fighting (1) + -
  • Hippopotamidae (1) + -
  • Indentured servants (1) + -
  • Jews, German (1) + -
  • Knife fighting (1) + -
  • Lifesaving at fires (1) + -
  • Millionaires (1) + -
  • Missing persons (1) + -
  • Mounds (1) + -
  • Newspapers (1) + -
  • Orphans (1) + -
  • Railroad conductors (1) + -
  • Railroad engineers (1) + -
  • Reporters and reporting (1) + -
  • Riots (1) + -
  • Romanies (1) + -
  • Shipwrecks (1) + -
  • Squatters (1) + -
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Character

  • Harkaway, Jack (Fictitious character) (1) + -

Place

  • New York (N.Y.) (4) + -
  • New York (State) (4) + -
  • Chicago (Ill.) (2) + -
  • Africa, West (1) + -
  • Philadelphia (Pa.) (1) + -
  • Southern States (1) + -
  • Southwestern States (1) + -

Format

  • Nickel weeklies (21) + -

Collection

  • Edward T. LeBlanc Collection. Rare Books and Special Collections, Northern Illinois University. (19) + -
  • Johannsen Collection. Rare Books and Special Collections, Northern Illinois University. (2) + -

Query

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Enabled Filters

  • (-) = Robbery

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Master of himself, or, A boy's fight in the world
Tinker's man, Bogey
Jack Harkaway to the rescue
The maniac engineer, or, A life's mystery
Friendless Frank, or, The boy who became famous
Striking his gait, or, The perils of a boy engineer
Through thick and thin, or, Our boys abroad
Bound to rise, or, Fighting his way to success
Fred Lenoir, or, Stirring scenes in the south
Hal Howe, the boy reporter, or, A sharp lad's work for a great newspaper
A start in life, or, A poor boy's rise to fame
Edgewood no. 2, or, The only boy in the fire company
Out of the gutter, or, Fighting the battle alone
Sixty mile Sam, or, Bound to be on time
The maniac engineer, or, A life's mystery
Through thick and thin, or, Our boys abroad
The farmer's son, or, A young clerk's downfall
Through an unknown land, or, The boy canoeists of the Quanza
The three doors, or, Half a million in gold
Dick Duncan, or, The blight of the bowl
Spotter Fritz, or, The store-detective's decoy

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