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Publication Date

1879 - 1929

(years)

Genre

Historical fiction (40) + -
War stories (34) + -
Civil War stories (21) + -
American Revolutionary War stories (9) + -
Sea stories (6) + -
Western stories (6) + -
Adventure stories (3) + -
Spy stories (3) + -
Detective and mystery stories (2) + -
Humorous stories (2) + -

Romance fiction (2) + -

Series

Blue and gray weekly (19) + -
Pluck and luck (16) + -
Five cent wide awake library (12) + -
Deadwood Dick library (5) + -
Nugget library (2) + -
Deadwood Dick library (London, England) (1) + -
New York detective library (1) + -

Author

Lee, Harry, Lieut. (19) + -
Gordon, James A., General (10) + -
Wade, William (7) + -
Wheeler, Edward L. (Edward Lytton), 1854 or 1855-1885 (5) + -
Old scout (4) + -
Sherman, John (3) + -
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) + -
Granville, George W., Captain (1) + -
Howard, Police Captain (1) + -
Johnston, J. L., General (1) + -
Pad, Peter (1) + -
Redwing, Morris, 1847-1936 (1) + -
Richards, J. P. (1) + -
Scott, J. R. (1) + -
Smiley, Sam (1) + -
St. John, Percy B. (Percy Bolingbroke), 1821-1889 (1) + -
Taylor, R.M. (1) + -

Publisher

Tousey, Frank (40) + -
Wolff, Harry E. (8) + -
M.J. Ivers & Co. (5) + -
Street & Smith (2) + -
George Newnes, Limited (1) + -

Topic

History (43) + -
Escapes (8) + -
American loyalists (5) + -
Indians of North America (5) + -
Prisoners (5) + -
Privateering (5) + -
Battles (4) + -
Enemies (4) + -
Scouts (Reconnaissance) (4) + -
Women heroes (4) + -

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) + -
Washington, George, 1732-1799 (5) + -
McClellan, George B., 1826-1885 (4) + -
Deadwood Dick (Fictitious character) (3) + -
Lee, Robert E., 1807-1870 (3) + -

Wayne, Anthony, 1745-1796 (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) + -

Place

New York (N.Y.) (3) + -
Atlantic Ocean (2) + -
Corinth (Miss.) (2) + -
High Plains (U.S.) (2) + -
Leadville (Colo.) (2) + -
Nebraska (2) + -
North Dakota (2) + -
Valley Forge (Pa.) (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) + -
Rapidan River Valley (Va.) (1) + -
Salem (Mass.) (1) + -
South Carolina (1) + -
Wind River Valley (Wyo.) (1) + -
Wisconsin (1) + -

Format

Nickel weeklies (56) + -

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(-) = Edward T. LeBlanc Collection. Rare Books and Special Collections, Northern Illinois University.
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: The iron grays, or, The boy riders of the Rapidan

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