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...
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Dime?, a popular song of the Great Depression Dime store, also known as a "five and dime" Dime novel, later known as dime store novel March of Dimes "Stop...
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Kit Carson (section Books and dime novels (1847–1859))
news articles; exaggerated versions of his exploits were the subject of dime novels. His understated nature belied confirmed reports of his fearlessness...
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Pulp magazine (redirect from Pulp novel)
untrimmed edges. Pulps were the successors to the penny dreadfuls, dime novels, and short-fiction magazines of the 19th century. Although many respected...
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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...
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Texas Jack Omohundro (section Dime novels)
dramas on the stage throughout the country, and was immortalized in dime novels published around the world. Omohundro was born in Palmyra on the Pleasure...
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mythic West that took deep root in the American imagination. Western novels (dime novels, pulp fiction), mainstream literature (Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales)...
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Look up Dime or dime in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. DIME, Dime or Dimes may refer to: Dime (United States coin) Dime (Canadian coin) Dark Internet...
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entitled 'Life of Jesse James' – probably referring to a dime novel. In Charles Portis's 1968 novel True Grit, U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn describes fighting...
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John C. Reilly as Buffalo Bill Buffalo Bill Dime novel series 1901–1910: Buffalo Bill Stories – A dime novel publication with 500 issues featuring Buffalo...
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in the Deadwood Dick series of dime novels, beginning with the first appearance of Deadwood Dick in Beadle's Half-Dime Library issue #1 in 1877. This...
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heads at parts of this novel." Entertainment Weekly also noted that "some of [Clancy's] secondary characters have a flat, dime-novel feel". Canadian environmentalist...
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Western fiction (redirect from Western novel)
and later the "dime novels". Published in June 1860, Malaeska; the Indian Wife of the White Hunter is considered the first dime novel. These cheaply made...
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Ardis E. Parshall (section Dime Novel Mormons)
has co-edited books including Mormonism: A Historical Encyclopedia and Dime Novel Mormons. According to W. Paul Reeve, Parshall conducts research that highlights...
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and pulp dime novels. The Virginian paved the way for westerns by authors such as Zane Grey, Max Brand, Louis L'Amour, and others. The novel was adapted...
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The Steam Man of the Prairies (category Dime novels)
of the Prairies by Edward S. Ellis was the first U.S. science fiction dime novel and archetype of the Frank Reade series. It is one of the earliest examples...
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Tanner Trail First transcontinental railroad Folklore Dead man's hand Dime novel John Henry Johnny Kaw Long Tom's treasure Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine Lost...
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Cowboy culture (section Dime novels)
life by selling exaggerated ideas of it in novels and fashion became popular. Beginning in the 1860s, dime novels began sharing erroneous and highly romanticized...
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the 19th century in such forms as pamphlets, yellowbacks, dime novels, and airport novels. Modern paperbacks can be differentiated from one another by...
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Jack Wright (character) (category Characters in dime novels)
Wright was the hero of a popular series of Victorian science fiction dime novels and story papers written by Luis Senarens, the so-called "American Jules...
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west. Our own Iliad and Odyssey, created from standard elements of the dime novel and the pulp Western as romanticized by Buntline, Harte, and Twain. It...
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the 1880s, after James's death, the James Gang became the subject of dime novels that represented the bandits as pre-industrial models of resistance....
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of rules and was published by Pinnacle Entertainment Group. Deadlands Dime Novels were works of short fiction, primarily starring undead gunslinger Ronan...
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Tanner Trail First transcontinental railroad Folklore Dead man's hand Dime novel John Henry Johnny Kaw Long Tom's treasure Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine Lost...
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Tanner Trail First transcontinental railroad Folklore Dead man's hand Dime novel John Henry Johnny Kaw Long Tom's treasure Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine Lost...
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machines appeared in dime novels between 1868 and 1899. See Dime Novel Robots by Joseph A. Lovece. https://www.amazon.com/Dime-Novel...
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" John Rollin Ridge, grandson of Cherokee leader Major Ridge, wrote a dime novel about Murrieta. This fictional account contributed to his legend, especially...
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Ned Buntline bibliography (section Dime novels)
The following is a list of works by American dime novel author Edward Zane Carroll Judson commonly known by his pen name Ned Buntline. Magdalena, the Beautiful...
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Tanner Trail First transcontinental railroad Folklore Dead man's hand Dime novel John Henry Johnny Kaw Long Tom's treasure Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine Lost...
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difficult to separate the truth from fiction about Hickok who was the first "dime novel" hero of the western era, with his exploits presented in heroic form,...
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