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Beadle's Dime Song Book No. 4 - A Collection of New and Popular Comic and Sentimental Songs.This text includes characters that require UTF-8 (Unicode) file encoding. If apostrophes and quotation marks appear as garbage, make sure your text readers character set or file encoding...

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Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No. 2 - A Collection of New and Popular Comic and Sentimental Songs.Why these works (Beadles Dime Books) are popular, is a problem, quite as much for the moralist and the student of National character as for the critic....

The island pirate, a tale of the MississippiI soon discovered that I had got into the very ground where such a taste could be gratified. Amid scenes of softness or sublimity, or tranquil solitude or stirring lifeamid varied types of nationality, and strange contrasts...

Old Bear-Paw, the trapper king; or, The love of a Blackfoot queen"I wonder what has become of that everlasting Yankee? He promised to meet me here at noon, yet I have stood here and seen the shadows of these old pines lengthen for the...

Scarred Eagle; or, Moorooine, the sporting fawn. A story of lake and shoreCrack! crack! rung out the reports of two rifles over the calm bosom of the lake, and two canoes, about fifty rods apart, seemed to leap from the water as they sped...

Cato, the creeper; or, The demon of Dead-Man's ForestThe hot Arkansas sun shone hotly down upon Dead-Mans Forest, that vast, sleepy army of trees which silently overlooked acres of treacherous swamp, silent glade, and tiny hillock. Why it had been so weirdly named, no...

Nat, The Trapper and Indian-FighterHis appearance was striking. In hight he was rather more than six feet, his legs and arms being long and lank in the extreme. His eyes were small, gray and piercing, and remarkably deep-set; his face rather thin and cadaverous,...

The phantom tracker; or, The prisoner of the hill caveIt was a sultry, scorching day, on the banks of the river Gilavery sultry and silent. The sun in the zenith looked whitely down, and the yellow banks reflected its rays fiercely on the sluggishly-creeping,...

Joe Napyank; or, The River RiflesEntered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by FRANK STARR & CO., in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Ive had a pretty good...

The Texas Hawks; or, The Strange DecoyOne glance would decide this. The soiled and blood-stained garments of the half-score figures gathered around the cheerful, crackling fire, in attitudes of careless ease, for the most part with pipe in mouth, the half-picked bones and fragments...

Mad Anthony's scouts; or, The rangers of KentuckyA tall, spare specimen of the backwoodsman, who was sitting by a smouldering camp-fire, had arisen and grasped the hand of a genial-faced Irishman, who was also clad in the habiliments of the forest. "I was jist...

The luckless trapper; or, The haunted hunterThere is a peculiar hiss when a rifle-ball passes in close proximity to one's head, a sound that no doubt chords with some musical note, yet upon most ears the noise is apt to fall rather unpleasantly. So...

Wolf-Cap; or, The Night-Hawks of the Fire-Lands: A Tale of the Bloody FortNot a sound disturbs the stillness of the wood; but just at the edge of the meager clearing that lies before the cabin, a little river flows northward with a low noise,...

The Yellow Hunter; or, The Winding Trail of DeathYes, the fearless originator of the greatest Indian conspiracy on record had received a death-blow at the hands of a fellow red-man, and the promise of a barrel of English rum had nerved the villains arm....

The Phantom Rider; or The Giant Chief's Fate: A tale of the old Dahcotah countryIt was a bleak, windy day in November. The shrill blasts wailed through the forest trees like the last despairing cry of a lost spirit, and gust after gust beat...

Delaware Tom; or, The Traitor GuideWe call the readers attention to a scene, that, if not romantic, is at least attractive and interesting; a wagon-train of emigrants, as is attested by the quantity of driven stockhorses, cattle and sheep. The presence of women and...

Silver Rifle, the Girl Trailer; Or, The White Tigers of Lake SuperiorIn the center of a thickly-wooded dell, situated about three miles from the southern shore of Lake Superior, a half-breed youth, clad in the habiliments of a Chippewa Indian, discussed a frugal meal....

The skeleton scout; or, The border blockThe scene opens upon one of those great rivers of the West, in the country which Tecumseh claimed and fought for so gallantly. The forest was at rest, save only the songs of birds and the splash of...

The Scarlet Shoulders; or, The Miner RangersIndiosIndios bravos! yelled Manuel Navaja, as he discharged his escopette full at the glowing disk of old Sol; then dropping it, he rushed through the outer gates, sounding the terrible words at every step, his affright being shared...