Golden, Colorado
Buffalo Bill dime novel. This skeleton is shooting lasers FROM ITS EYES. A display of Buffalo Bill "Dime Novels" will be on loan to the Buffalo Bill Cultural Center from the Buffalo Bill Museum & Grave in Golden, Colorado beginning April 13, 2013 through the summer. Stop in the BBCC at US Hwy 83 and 2nd Street in Oakley, Kansas M-F 9-5 or Sat 11-5 to catch the display. FREE
My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck By Lightning
Secret Service, May 20th, 1910 You know, they call these things “dime novels” but all the ones I’ve ever seen, after they moved up from a penny around 1865 or so, were a nickel. The pulp magazines in the 30s and 40s were a dime, there were 5 cents, but try and get people to call them Nickel Novels and see where that gets you.
Yesterday’s Papers
Reade, Frank (I, II, and III). The first Frank Reade was created by "Noname," aka "Harry Enton," aka Harold Cohen, and debuted in “Frank Reade and His Steam Man of the Plains, or, The Terror of the West,” Boys of New York #28, 28 February 1876. The Frank Reades were collectively the most famous and successful of the Edisonade (see below) dime novel characters, and in many ways were the most representative of them, and their stories of the genre itself. Frank Reade wasn't the first Edisonade; tha
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid by Michael Ondaatje Drawing on contemporary accounts, period photographs, dime novels, and his own prodigious fund of empathy and imagination, Michael Ondaatje's visionary novel traces the legendary outlaw's passage across the blasted landscape of 1880 New Mexico and the collective unconscious of his country.
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