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The dime novel is a form of late 19th-century and early 20th-century U.S. popular fiction issued in series of inexpensive paperbound editions. The term dime novel has been used as a catchall term for several different but related forms, referring to story papers, five- and ten-cent weeklies, "thick book" reprints, and sometimes early pulp magazines.
A dime Western is a modern term for Western-themed dime novels, which spanned the era of the 1860s–1900s.Most would hardly be recognizable as a modern western, having more in common with James Fennimore Cooper's Leatherstocking saga, but many of the standard elements originated here: a cool detached hero, a frontiersman (later a cowboy), a fragile heroine in danger of the despicable outlaw ...
Edward Lytton Wheeler (1854/5 – 1885) was a nineteenth century American writer of dime novels.One of his most famous characters is the Wild West rascal Deadwood Dick. His stories of the west mixed fictional characters with real-life personalities of the era, including Calamity Jane and Sitting B
A dime novel featuring Jesse James from 1901. Cultural depictions of Jesse James appear in various types of media, including literature, video games, comics, music, stage productions, films, television, and radio. James is variously described as an American outlaw, bank and train robber, guerrilla, and leader of the James–Younger Gang.
At first, dime novels were denounced as "pernicious and evil" by literary purists. [5] At the beginning of the twentieth century, in July 1907, Charles M. Harvey, a critic, changed the prevailing attitudes after publishing in the Atlantic Monthly a reflective piece titled, The Dime Novel in American Life. He stated there,
The following is a list of works by American dime novel author Edward Zane Carroll Judson commonly known by his pen name Ned Buntline. [1] [Note 1] Dime novels.
The dime, struck by the U.S. Mint in San Francisco in 1975, is so valuable because it is just one of two dimes missing an "S" mark for San Francisco. Ohio sisters inherit dime with an obvious ...
The Wister trace: classic novels of the American frontier (Jameson Books, 1987) Fleming, Robert E (October 1979). The Dime Novel Western. Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association. Hamilton, Cynthia S. Western and hard-boiled detective fiction in America: from high noon to midnight (Macmillan, 1987) Jones, Daryl (c. 1978). The dime novel ...