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Title: |
The Ventriloquist Detective; or, A Romance of Rogues |
Author: |
Wheeler, Edward L. (Edward Lytton) |
Catalog Number: |
CODL.1213.17 |
Call#: |
REF.1899.01 (Reference Book) |
Summary: |
1 of 30 periodicals in this collection. Deadwood Dick was a product of the imagination of Edward L. Wheeler, self-styled "Sensational Novelist". Born 1855, Wheeler probably never got further west than Pennsylvania. But in October of 1877, he published his first episode of the adventures of a fictional character named Deadwood Dick. Dick was an outlaw at first, but later became a detective, righting the wrongs across the American West. In thirty-three novels he met such fictional characters as Blonde Bill, Salamander Sam and Kentucky Kit. His sweetheart, whom he finally marries in a book titled "Deadwood Dick's Doom", is none other than Calamity Jane. The original Deadwood Dick novels were published from 1877 to 1885 by Beadle & Adams. They were reprinted in 1899, along with several other titles as the Deadwood Dick Library. |
Object Name: |
Periodical |
Published Date: |
03/15/1899 |
Physical Description: |
32 pages, illustrations on first page. 11 chapters |