Crane's story seems to grow out of the "dime novel" tradition of cheap, readily available pulp thrillers, many of them set in the wild West, the huge crossroads of the nineteenth-century-American imagination, where desperadoes, settlers, strangers, Indians, Mexicans, and only a few law and order types met, and anything could happen. The hugely popular paperbacks such as Seth Jones by Edward S. Ellis (1860) and Deadmod Dick by Edward L......
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