300.

William R. Eyster. A Sport in Spectacles; or, The Bad Time at Bunco. July 23, 1884.

Found in: Dime Library, no. 300; Dime Library, no. 1093.

Sequence of the series: Dime Library, no. 192; Dime Library, no. 229; Dime Library, no. 300; Dime Library, no. 333.

An Arizona mining story. Professor Elderberry was not such a fool as he looked.

301.

Sam S. Hall. Bowlder Bill; or, The Man from Taos. A Tale of the New Mexico Mines. July 30, 1884.

The story begins with a steamboat explosion on the Mississippi in 187-, then shifts to New Mexico near the Colorado line.

302.

Joseph E. Badger. Faro Saul, the Handsome Hercules; or,The Grip of Steel. August 6, 1884.

The story of a lady gambler, road agents, and a man with the euphonious name of Epaphroditus Weatherwax.

303.

Frederick Whittaker. Top-Notch Tom, the Cowboy Outlaw; or, The Satanstown Election. August 13, 1884.

Preceded by Dime Library, no. 295 and followed by Dime Library, no. 310.

Santanta county, Texas. Another of Whittaker's stories in which the villain is an English nobleman. Date 188- Murder, court scene, etc.

304.

William F. Cody. Texas Jack, the Prairie Rattler; or, The Queen of the Wild Horses. A Romance in the Life of a Real Hero--John B. Omohundro--Texas Jack--and a Tale of the Southwest Border. August 20, 1884.

Found in: Beadle's Weekly/Banner Weekly (various title changes), no. 40, Dime Library, no. 304.

305.

Mark Wilton. Silver-Plated Sol, the Montana Rover; or, Giant Dave's Fight with Himself. August 27, 1884.

A mysterious murder in Montana.

306.

Anthony P. Morris. The Roughs of Richmond; or, The Mystery of the Golden Beetle. A Life Drama of the Famous Southern Capital. September 3, 1864.

Richmond, Virginia. The Order of the Golden Beetle. A murder-mystery story of the 1880's.

307.

Prentiss Ingraham. The Phantom Pirate; or, The Water Wolves of the Bahamas. A Romance of Sea Mysteries in the Last Century. September 10, 1884.

New Orleans and the Gulf in the eighteenth century.

308.

Edward Willett. Hemlock Hank, Tough and True; or, The Shadow of Mount Katahdin. September 17, 1884.

Maine. Chasing a forger who didn't forge. Bears, wolves, etc.

309.

Sam S. Hall. Raybold, the Rattling Ranger; or, Old Rocky's Tough Campaign. September 24, 1884.

Northwest of San Antonio, Texas. More about Big Foot Wallace. Captured by Comanches. (What! No letter to read in a Hall story?)

310.

Frederick Whittaker. The Marshal of Satanstown; or, The League of the Cattle-Lifters. October 1, 1884.

Sequence of series: Dime Library, no. 295, Dime Library, no. 303, Dime Library, no. 310.

Cattle thieves pursued by ranchmen and the sheriff in Texas.

311.

Mark Wilton. Heavy Hand, the Relentless; or, The Marked Men of Paradise Gulch. October 8, 1884.

Danites in Utah.

312.

Morris Redwing. Kinkfoot Karl, the Mountain Scourge; or, Wiping Out the Score. A Story of Wild Life in the Mines. October 15, 1884.

A California mining-town nemesis.

313.

Anthony P. Morris. Mark Magic, Detective. A Story of a Beautiful Woman's Strange Career. October 22, 1884.

Baltimore to Philadelphia. A detective is sent on a mission without being told what he is to look for.

314.

J. H. Ingraham (Revised and edited by Prentiss Ingraham). Lafitte; or, the Pirate of the Gulf. October 29, 1884.

Followed by Dime Library, no. 316.

The original story was published in 1833.

The scene shifts from Maine to New Orleans. Time: 1812.

A rather magnanimous Lafitte, as noble as he of the movies.

315.

Edward Willett. Flush Fred's Double; or, The Squatters' League of Six. November 5, 1884.

A gambler and his double in Louisiana and on the Mississippi.

316.

J. H. Ingraham (Revised and edited by Prentiss Ingraham). Lafitte s Lieutenant; or, Theodore, the Child of the Sea. November 12, 1884.

Preceded by Dime Library, no. 314.

The original story was published in Boston in 1844. New Orleans and the Bay of Barrataria.

317.

Joseph E. Badger. Frank Lightfoot, the Miner Detective. November 19, 1884.

Denver, when it was only a city of tents and shanties.

318.

Prentiss Ingraham. The Indian Buccaneer; or, Red Rovers on Blue Waters. A Story of Sea Mysteries. November 26, 1884.

Followed by Dime Library, no. 325.

Portland, Maine, and adjacent waters. Time: about 1812.

319.

"Buffalo Bill." Wild Bill, the Whirlwind of the West. December 3, 1884.

Found in: Beadle's Weekly/Banner Weekly (various title changes), no. 28; Dime Library, no. 319.

320.

Albert W. Aiken. The Genteel Spotter; or, The Night Hawks of New York. A Tale of the Lawless. December 10, 1884.

Found in: Beadle's Weekly/Banner Weekly (various title changes), no. 46; Dime Library, no. 320.

321.

Howard Holmes. California Claude, the Lone Bandit. December 17, 1884.

A California story. "The Queen of Steel Trap City fell from the saddle in a swoon." ..." 'Merciful Heavens, it is Frank,' and she struck the ground in a swoon." . . . "Queen Bess fell senseless to the ground." By this time she must have been pretty badly bruised.

322.

Sam S. Hall. The Crimson Coyotes; or, Nita, the Nemesis. December 24, 1884.

A gory tale of San Antonio, about 1866 or 1867.

323.

Mark Wilton. Hotspur Hugh; or, The Banded Brothers of the Giant's Arm. December 31, 1884.

An Indian and bad men tale of the Columbia River region, Oregon.

324.

Joseph E. Badger. Old Forked-Lightning, the Solitary; or, Every Inch a Man. January 7, 1885.

Found in: Dime Library, no. 324; Dime Library, no. 1094.

Followed by Dime Library, no. 331.

Colorado in 1880. A Chispa Charlie story.

325.

Prentiss Ingraham. The Gentleman Pirate; or, The Hermits of Casco Bay. January 14, 1885.

A sequel to Dime Library, no. 318.

The scene shifts from England to the coast of Maine, near Portland.

326.

Frederick Whittaker. The Whitest Man in the Mines. A Story of the Gold Fever. January 21, 1885.

A good, well-written yarn of a Rocky Mountain mining camp.

327.

Edward Willett. Terrapin Dick, the Wild-Wood Detective; or, Trailing a Traitor, January 28, 1885.

From Boston to the Maine woods. A detective story.

328.

Sam S. Hall. King Kent; or, The Bandits of the Bason [El Bason]. February 4, 1885.

Rio San Saba, Texas, and vicinity.

A man was suspended on the face of a cliff to be stung to death by bees.

329.

Prentiss Ingraham. The League of Three; or, Buffalo Bill's Pledge. A Story of a Trail Followed to the Bitter End by the Three Famous Scouts, Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill and Texas Jack, the "Princes of the Plains." February 11, 1885.

Found in: Beadle's Weekly/Banner Weekly (variou title changes), no. 1; Dime Library, no. 329.

Brought $11 at the O'Brien sale.

330.

Charles Morris. Cop Colt, the Quaker City Detective; or, A Hound on the Wolves' Track. February 18, 1885.

Philadelphia in 1870. There is never a doubt as to the villain, and it all works out for good in the end. Typical of 1880 stories.

331.

Joseph E. Badger. Chispa Charley, the Gold Nugget Sport; or, The Rocky Mountain Masks. February 25, 1885.

A companion story to Dime Library, no. 324.

Near Denver in 1880. A Chispa Charlie story.

332.

Thomas Hoyer Monstery. Spring-Heel Jack; or, The Masked Mystery of the Tower. March 4, 1885.

London, circa 1835. A good brother and a bad brother who naturally turns out to be no brother at all.

333.

William R. Eyster. Derringer Deck, the Man with the Drop; or, Colonel Coldsteel and his Lucky Seven. March 11, 1885.

Sequence of the series: Dime Library, no. 192; Dime Library, no. 229; Dime Library, no. 300; Dime Library, no. 333.

Bad men out west.

334.

Anthony P. Morris. The Cipher Detective; or, Mark Magic on a New Trail. March 18, 1885.

A Baltimore detective story. A cryptogram to solve.

335.

Howard Holmes. Flash Dan, the Nabob; or, The Blades of Bowie Bar. A Story of the Gold Lands. March 25, 1885.

Northern California and near Carson City, Nevada, in 1869.

336.

Prentiss Ingraham. The Magic Ship; or, The Freebooters of Sandy Hook. A Tale of Fiction, founded upon Fact, in the History of the Earlier Days of New York and its Adjacent Waters. April 1, 1885.

Found in: Beadle's Weekly/Banner Weekly (various title changes), no. 20; Dime Library, no. 336.

337.

Edward Willett. Old Gabe, the Mountain Tramp; or, The Tragedy of the Deserted Camp. April 8, 1885.

Prospecting for gold at "Jimtown," Colorado. A bad man murdered his half brother, but he had to draw the line somewhere.

338.

Philip S. Warne. Jack Sand, the Boss of the Town; or, The Fool of Fiddler's Folly. April 15, 1885.

A crooked faro deal and a dead man--a negro preacher for the memorial services--a border court--framing a murder--a hard crowd.

339.

Joseph E. Badger. Spread Eagle Sam, the Hercules Hide-Hunter. A Romance of the Buffalo-Range. April 22, 1885.

Followed by Dime Library, no. 433.

Hide hunters in the Northwest when bison were plentiful. An "Old Misery" story.

340.

Howard Holmes. Cool Conrad, the Dakota Detective; or, From Lair to Lair. A Tale of 'Frisco and the Gold Camps. April 29, 1885.

A poor story of San Francisco in 1884.

341.

Prentiss Ingraham. The Sea Desperado. May 6, 1885.

Found in: Beadle's Weekly/Banner Weekly (various title changes), no. 43; Dime Library, no. 341.

342.

"Buckskin Sam." Blanco Bill, the Mustang Monarch. May 13, 1885.

Outlaws, Indians, Texans, Mexicans, in New Mexico and in El Paso, Texas.

343.

Anthony P. Morris. The Head Hunter; or, Mark Magic in the Mines. May 20, 1885.

Locale: Between Baltimore and Washington. The detective apparently wore two or three suits of clothes to enable him to make lightning changes.

344.

William R. Eyster. Double-Shot Dave of the Left Hand; or, A Cold Wave at Black Dam. May 27, 1885.

Bad men and detectives out West.

345.

Joseph E. Badger. Masked Mark, the Mounted Detective. June 3, 1885.

Montana. Murder most foul and vengeance sworn. A corpse that kept its appointment.

346.

Prentiss Ingraham. Ocean Guerrillas; or, The Planter Midshipman. A Romance of Southern Shores and Waters in the Eighteenth Century. June 10, 1885.

Found in: Beadle's Weekly/Banner Weekly (various title changes), no. 71; Dime Library, no. 346; Dime Library, no. 1095.

347.

Howard Holmes. Denver Duke, the Man with "Sand;" or, Centipede Sam's Lone Hand. June 17, 1885.

A story of Leadville, Colorado.

348.

Edward Willett. Dan Dillon, King of Crosscut; or, A Woman's Wild Work. June 24, 1885.

An old man is murdered; his young wife is accused, tried, and acquitted. The mills of the gods grind slowly.

349.

Albert W. Aiken. Lion-Hearted Dick, the Gentleman Road-Agent. A Wild Tale of California Adventure. July 1, 1885.

Found in: Beadle's Weekly/Banner Weekly (various title changes), no. 2; Dime Library, no. 349; Dime Library, no. 1077.

350.

Weldon J. Cobb. Flash Falcon, the Society Detective. July 8, 1885.

New York City detective story. The detective is in trouble--out--in--out--in--out--ad infinitum.

351.

Joseph E. Badger. Nor'west Nick, the Border Detective; or, Dan Brown's Fight for Life. July 15, 1885.

Found in: Beadle's Weekly/Banner Weekly (various title changes), no. 16; Dime Library, no. 351.

352.

Howard Holmes. The Desperate Dozen; or, The Fair Fiend of the Coeur d'Alene. July 22, 1885.

Brought $1.50 at the O'Brien sale.

Early days at the Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, mines.

353.

John Cuthbert. Barb Brennan, the Train Wrecker; or, The King of Straight Flush. A Railroad Detective Story. July 29, 1885.

Central Pacific Railway, in Kansas, then along the Gunnison River, in Colorado.

354.

Albert W. Aiken. Red Richard; or, The Brand of the Crimson Cross. A Romance of Californian Mining Life. August 5, 1885.

Found in: Beadle's Weekly/Banner Weekly (various title changes), no. 23; Dime Library, no. 354.

355.

Joseph E. Badger. The Mad Athlete; or, The Worst Pill in the Box. August 12, 1885.

Date: 1879. Locale: Out West, probably Colorado. A trick ending, which is very rare in novels of the 1880's.

356.

William R. Eyster. Three Handsome Sports; or, The Double Combination. August 19, 1885.

Near the Mexican border. A woman, worth five millions, has many suitors.

357.

Anthony P. Morris. Jack Simons, Detective; or, The Wolves of Washington. A Drama of Lives and Mysteries at the Gay Capital. August 26, 1885.

Found in: Beadle's Weekly/Banner Weekly (various title changes), no. 6; Dime Library, no. 357.

358.

Sam S. Hall. The Prince of Pan-Out; or, The Beautiful Navajo's Mission. September 2, 1885.

Adventures in the Mogollon Mountains, in southeastern Arizona.

359.

Philip S. Warne. Yellow Jack, the Mestizo; or, Tiger Dick to the Rescue. September 9, 1885.

Sequence of the series: Dime Library, no. 280; Dime Library, no. 299; Dime Library, no. 359; Dime Library, no. 380.

Santa Fe, New Mexico.

360.

Joseph E. Badger. Jumping Jerry, the Gamecock from Sundown; or, A Craw Full of Sand. September 16, 1885.

Colorado contemporary story.

361.

Ned Buntline. Tombstone Dick, the Train Pilot; or, The Traitor's Trail. A Story of the Arizonian Wilds. September 23, 1885.

Stagecoach and wagon train en route near Tombstone, Arizona.

362.

Prentiss Ingraham. Buffalo Bill's Grip; or, Oath-Bound to Custer. A Romance of a Real Trail that Ended in the Avenging of the Heroes, Custer and his Three Hundred Troopers who Fell in "Sitting Bull's Battle of the Big Horn." September 30, 1885.

Found in: Beadle's Weekly/Banner Weekly (various title changes), no. 9; Dime Library, no. 362.

363.

Albert W. Aiken. Crowningshield, the Sleuth; or, Pitiless as Death. October 7, 1885.

Perils and escapes of a detective in Boston.

364.

Prentiss Ingraham. The Sea Fugitive; or, The Queen of the Coast. October 14, 1885.

A sea story, about the year 1800, off the New England coast.

365.

Howard Holmes. Keen Kennard, the Shasta Shadow; or, The Branded Face. A Wild Romance of the Sierras. October 21, 1885.

Two women on vengeance bent. From Sacramento to the Sierras in 1879 in a search for a lost Ophir.

366.

George Henry Morse. The Telegraph Detective; or, The Dynamite League. October 28, 1885.

Found in: Beadle's Weekly/Banner Weekly (various title changes), no. 25; Dime Library, no. 366.

367.

Joseph E. Badger. A Royal Flush; or, Dan Brown's Big Game of Freeze-Out. November 4, 1885.

Dan Brown, retired to a Colorado ranch, goes back into harness.

368.

Edward Willett. The Canyon King; or, A Price on his Head. A Tale of the Wahsatch Range. November 11, 1885.

California, Utah, Arizona. Three men on the same trail.

369.

Prentiss Ingraham. The Coast Corsair; or, Madcap Madge, the Siren of the Sea. November 18, 1885.

A companion story to Dime Library, no. 364.

The New England coast from Maine to Massachusetts.

370.

Albert W. Aiken. The Dusky Detective; or, Pursued to the End. November 25, 1885.

New York City detective tale.

371.

Sam S. Hall. Gold Buttons; or, The Up-Range Pards. December 2, 1885.

A tale of New Mexico.

372.

Joseph E. Badger. Captain Crisp, the Man with a Record. December 9, 1885.

Goings on at the "Good Enough Ranch."

373.

Prentiss Ingraham. The Sailor of Fortune; or, The Buccaneers of Barnegat Bay. A Romance of the Early Days of the Present Century. December 16, 1885.

Found in: Beadle's Weekly/Banner Weekly (various title changes), no. 33; Dime Library, no. 373.

374.

Howard Holmes. Major Blister, the Sport of Two Cities; or, The Broadway Spotter in the Black Hills. A Story of the Wild West. December 23, 1885.

Custer City, South Dakota, is the scene of this tale.

375.

William R. Eyster. Royal George, the Three in One; or, The Cold Deck on Blazer's. December 30, 1885.

Some place "out West" with the usual bad men.

376.

Albert W. Aiken. The Black Beards; or, The High Horse on the Rio Grande. A Tale of the Texan Frontier. January 6, 1886.

El Paso, Texas, in the early days.

377.

Prentiss Ingraham. Afloat and Ashore; or, The Corsair Conspirator. January 13, 1886.

Red rovers on the Atlantic coast.

378.

Frederick Whittaker. John Armstrong, Mechanic; or, From the Bottom to the Top of the Ladder. A Story of How a Man can Rise in America. January 20, 1886.

Found in: Beadle's Weekly/Banner Weekly (various title changes), no. 1; Dime Library, no. 378.

379.

Joseph E. Badger. Howling Jonathan; or, The Terror from Headwaters. January 27, 1886.

Found in: Dime Library, no. 379; Dime Library, no. 1084.

The town of "Good Leather," somewhere in the West.

380.

Philip S. Warne. The Golden Serpent; or, Tiger Dick's Pledge. A Story of Life in California. February 3, 1886.

Preceded by Dime Library, no. 280, Dime Library, no. 229, Dime Library, no. 359.

A tale of California.

381.

Albert W. Aiken. The Gypsy Gentleman; or, Nick Fox, the Demon Detective. February 10, 1886.

Found in: Beadle's Weekly/Banner Weekly (various title changes), no. 37; Dime Library, no. 381.

382.

Howard Holmes. The Bonanza Band; or, Dread Don of the Cool Clan. February 17, 1886.

A Black Hills story.

383.

Daniel Boone Dumont. Silver Sam, the Detective; or, The Rustlers of Butte City. February 24, 1886.

Locale: Montana.

384.

Albert W. Aiken. Injun Dick, Detective; or, Tracked from the Rockies to New York. March 3, 1886.

Found in: Beadle's Weekly/Banner Weekly (various title changes), no. 92; Dime Library, no. 384; Dime Library, no. 1039.

385.

William H. Manning. Wild Dick Turpin, the Lion of Leadville; or, The Lone Hand. March 10, 1886.

Found in: Dime Library, no. 385; Dime Library, no. 1078.

Leadville, Colorado.

386.

Jackson Knox (Old Hawk). Hawk Heron, the Falcon Detective; or, The Gotham Flats Mystery. March 17, 1886.

New York City detective story.

387.

Joseph E. Badger. Dark Durg, the Ishmael of the Hills; or, The Gold Phantom. March 24, 1886.

Denver and vicinity. Humpy Dick and his gold mine.

388.

Prentiss Ingraham. The Giant Buccaneer; or, The Wrecker Witch of Death Island. A Romance of the Gulf of Mexico and its Shores a Century Ago. March 31, 1886.

Found in: Beadle's Weekly/Banner Weekly (various title changes), no. 95; Dime Library, no. 388

Preceded by Dime Library, no. 346.

389.

Daniel Boone Dumont. Colonel Double Edge, the Cattle Baron's Pard; or, The Marshal of Sandstone. April 7, 1886.

Locale: Arizona.

390.

J. C. Cowdrick. The Giant Cupid; or, Cibuta John's Great Jubilee. April 14, 1886.

Followed by Dime Library, no. 424.

New Mexico.

391.

Albert W. Aiken. Kate Scott, the Decoy Detective; or, Joe Phenix's Still Hunt. A Romance of the Upper Crust and Lower Crust of New York Life. April 21. 1886.

Found in: Beadle's Weekly/Banner Weekly (various title changes), no. 65; Dime Library, no. 391.

392.

Howard Holmes. The Lost Bonanza; or, The Boot of Silent Hound. A Tale of Three Millions. April 28, 1886.

Colorado. The deuce of diamonds fell from the deck, at the same moment a man with the deuce of diamonds tattooed on his chest was murdered outside the cabin.

393.

Prentiss Ingraham. The Convict Captain; or, The. Battles of the Buccaneers. A Romance of Thrilling Mystery Afloat and Ashore. May 5, 1886.

Bahamas and Maine.

394.

William F. Cody. White Beaver, the Exile of the Platte; or, A Wronged Man's Red Trail. A Romance founded upon Incidents in the Border Life of Frank Powell, the "Doctor Scout." May 12, 1886.

Found in: Beadle's Weekly/Banner Weekly (various title changes), no. 67; Dime Library, no. 394.

Sequence of the series: Dime Library, no. 394, Dime Library, no. 397, Dime Library, no. 401.

395.

Joseph E. Badger. Deadly Aim, the Duke of Derringers; or, A Fight for Five Millions. May 19, 1886.

St. Louis, contemporary.

396.

William R. Eyster. The Piper Detective; or, The Gilt Edge Gang. May 26, 1886.

New York City, contemporary.

397.

William F. Cody. The Wizard Brothers; or, White Beaver's Red Trail. June 2, 1886.

Found in: Beadle's Weekly/Banner Weekly (various title changes), no. 77; Dime Library, no. 397.

Sequence of series: Dime Library, no. 394, Dime Library, no. 397, Dime Library, no. 401.

398.

George C. Jenks. Sleepless Eye, the Pacific Detective; or, Running down a Double. June 9, 1886.

A tale of California.

399.

Prentiss Ingraham. The New Monte Cristo; or, The Wandering Jew of the Sea. June 16, 1886.

Found in: Beadle's Weekly/Banner Weekly (various title changes), no. 107; Dime Library, no. 399.