American Studies International, June 1st, 2002
(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000), xxx + 333 pp., $79.50 (cloth).
"Bang! Ping! A bullet whistled by my left ear. Bang! Ping! Thud! Another whistled by my right ear, clipping a lock of hair, and burying itself in the stalk of the heavy black snake whip I was flourishing aloft at the time."
Thus begins, literally with the proverbial bang, a series of dime novels entitled Jesse James Stories, published by the firm of Street & Smith in May 1901. Hundreds of such stories were published each year between 1860--when the first dime novel, Malaeska, the Indian Wife of the White Hunter, was publ...
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