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Dime Novel Heroes Live On In American Memory
The piece traces dime novels and their real life inspirations. It names Buffalo Bill Cody Wild Bill Hickok Deadwood Dick Calamity Jane Captain Jack and others, noting authors Ned Buntline Ingraham and Beadle's publishers. It outlines how some real frontier figures became legendary fictitious.
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Elmo Scott Watson
Yesteryear
Dad
Bunk
Daredeath Dick
Captain Cool Blade
Mississippi
Pard
Buffalo Bill
Pete
Ralph
Erastus F. Biddle
Pocket
William Frederick Cody
Kansas
Hunter
Kansas Pacific Railroad
K. P
Billy Comstock
Edward Zane Carroll Judson
Ned Buntline
Col. Prentiss Ingraham
Realife
Wild Bill
California
Joe
Texas
Jack
Pawnee Bill
Capt. Jack
Arizona
Fancy Frank
Deadwood Dick
Diamond Dick
James Butler Hickok
Wlinols
Missouri
Overland
Marghal
Buntline
Deadwood
8.D
Tim
John B.omohundro
Virginia
Leadville
Colo
Cody, Hickok
Omohundre
Chicago
Plains
Publc
Wild Bui
Ingraham
Bibat
Moses FE. Milner
Montana
Pacific Northwest
George A. Custer
Southern Plains
Wyoming
Black Hills
Hickok
Wild Bil
Red Cloud Agency
Nebraska
Ranald
Mackenzie
Gordon Lillie
Illinois
Oklahoma
Cody
John Wallace Crawford
Ireland
Joseph Bruce
Texas Jack" Omohundra
Jane
Martha Jane Canary
George Crook
Frank Powell
White Beaver
Wisconsin
Buckskin Sam
Maj
Sam S. Hall
Taos
Badger
Legion
Edward L. Wheeler
Beadle and
Adams
Beadle
Pot Wheeler
Edmund Pearson
Little, Brown and Company
Frank Palmer
Denver
Los Angeles
Richard Bullock
Bullon
Richard W. Clark
South Dakota
Pearson
Desperado
Richard J. Tanner
Norfolk
Neb
Frank Carver
Buffalo Jack
Jack McCall
Wild Bill” Hickok
Jamey Capon’ Adams
Nea Neca Lake
N. Y
James Fenimore Cooper Adams
Brain” Adams
Union