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By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
HE increasing popularity of “Hobby
Shows" through the country is
bringing into the limelight once
more a type of native literature to
which an older generation of Amer.’
Icans looks back with fond memo-
ries. For nearly all such exhibi-
tions display examples of the little
yellow-backed books which the boys
of yesteryear gead In secret with
avid Interest, their enjoyment
4 heightened by the almost-certain
knowledge that discovery meant a stern “What's
this! . . . Reading a dime novel!!1!...” from
disapproving parent or teacher.
Those of a later generation who get their
vicarious thrills from watching movie melo-
dramas or listening to radio murder mysteries,
are likely to be scornful of the blood-and-thunder
heroes whose desperate deeds and hairbreadth
escapes so enthralled Dad. “Aw, bunk!" they
say, “lI betcha there never was any such fella
as Daredeath Dick, the King of the Cowboys,
or Captain Cool Blade, the Man-Shark of the
Mississippi I”
Maybe not! But ask Dad About some of the
other dime novel heroes. . . .
Didn't he smuggle a copy of “Buffalo Bill. The
Border King” up to bed with him one night and
there, by the dim light of the old coal-oll lamp,
read how “with oge leap the Border King sprang
up behind his disguised pard, back to back, and
opened fire with his trusty revolvers on the yelp
Ing redskins"? And, a few months later, didn't
he go down to the county seat town and with
his own eyes see that same “Border King" enter
the arena of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, ush-
ered in by a blaring band and the excited yells
of several hundred young Americans like him-
self? That tall, long-haired, buckskin-clad fig-
ure, sitting on his white horse with regal grace
wasn't he a story-book hero come to life? Yes,
sir!
Despite the fact that many a Bloody Pete and
Dead-Shot Dick and Reckless Ralph existed only
in the fertile imagination of old Erastus F. Bid-
dle's scribblers, some of the characters immor-
talized in that prolific publisher's “Dime Novels,”
“Half-Dime Library,” “Pocket Novels,” or “Boys
Library” were real persons, even though they
never had one-tenth of the adventures ascribed
to them. Chief among tiem, of course, was this
same “Border King.”
William Frederick Cody, youthful guide for
army officers In Kansas in 1866-67 and hunter
who supplied meat for bullders of the Kansas
Pacific raliroad, may have been dubbed “Buffalo
Bill” by the grateful K. P. workers, or he may
have won that sobriquet In a buffalo-shooting
match with Billy Comstock. But it remained for
two dime novelists, Edward Zane Carroll Judson,
who wrote under the name of “Ned Buntline,”
and Col. Prentiss Ingraham, to make it world
famous.
Other dime novel heroes who had counterparts
in real life were “Wild Bill" “California Joe, ®
“Texas Jack,” “Pawnee Bill,” “Capt. Jack.” "Ari
zona Joe," “Buckskin Sam,” “Roving Joe,” “Fan-
cy Frank,” "Deadwood Dick, “Diamond Dick.”
“Calamity Jane,” “The Evil Spirit of the Plains”
and “Old Grizzly.”
James Butler Hickok, a native of Illinois, a
soldier and scout in the Union army in Missouri
during the Civil war, Overland stage driver, mar.
shal of roaring Kansas cow towns, gambler and
gunman par excellence, was already famous as
“Wild Bill” before ever Runtline multiplied his
adventures tenfold in the little yellow. back hooks
Even after his assassination in Dendwood, & D.
in 1876, he was still good “cupy™ for the dime
novelists, as he has been for the more serious
historians, several of whom have tried to sort
out the fiction from fact and write authentic
biographies of him in recent years.
However, “Texas Jack” was a name of Bunt
line’s manufacture for John B. Omohundro, a
native of Virginia who emigrated to Texas be
fore the Civil war, became a mustang-breaker
and rancher, a soldier in the Confederate army
and afterwards a hunter, scout and Indian-fighter
until his death In Leadville, Colo., In 1880,
In 1875 Buntline brought Cody, Hickok and
Omohundro to Chicago, wrote a play, "Scouts of
the Plains” for them in less than four hours
(which prompted the classic remark of one re
viewer: “One wonders why It took him so long 1")
and presented them [on it to the public next day.
The case of “California Joe" Is similar to
that of “Wild BUI” In that he was famed under
that name before ever the dime novelists took
him up. Although one of Ingraham's novels char
acterized him as “The Mysterious Plainsman, An
Unkrown Man, whose real identity, like that of
the ‘Man of the Iron Mask’ is still unsolved”
there was no real mystery about his Identity,
He was Moses E. Milner, a Kentuckian, who first
erossed the Plains In the Golden Days of ‘40, was
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a miner in Montana and the Pacifie Northwest
and for a brief time chief of scouts for Gen
George A. Custer during the campaign of 1807.
68 against the tribes of the Southern Plains. He
also served as a scout and gulde for army officers
in Wyoming and Montana In the 70s, was a pros
pector in the Black Hills gold rush and met the
same fate as his friend, Hickok. Like “Wild
BUI" he was shot down from behind by an as
sassin In 1876 just before setting out from the
old Red Cloud agency ir Nebraska to guide the
expedition of Gen. Ranald 8. Mackenzie against
the Sioux and Cheyennes
“Pawnee Bill" was Maj). Gordon Lille, a native
of Illinois, who went to Oklahoma in the early
days as a “Boomer,” was a friend of the Pawnee
Indians, who adopted him Into their tribe, was
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associated for a time with Cody in the Wild
West show business and later had & similar
show of his own. He is still living in Oklahoma
as the prosperous owner of a ranch, famous for
its herd of buffalo.
“Capt. Jack” was John Wallace Crawford, a
native of Ireland, a boy soldier In the Union
ary, a prospector and miner in the Black Hills,
a scout for the army in the Sioux war of 1878
and until his death in 1917 was widely known as
a chautanqua and lyceum lecturer under the
name of “Capt, Jack, the Poet Scout.”
“Arizona Joe" was Joseph Bruce. a noted
frontier character, a miner, Indian fighter and
a close friend of “Texas Jack” Omohundro.,
“Calamity Jane” was the notorious Martha Jane
Canary, a native of Missourl, who, dressed in
men’s clothes, worked as a teamster with Gen.
George Crook's army in the Sioux war of 1878,
was a picturesque figure in the Black Hills gold
rush and later drifted to Montana where she
died In 1903. “Fancy Frank” was Dr. Frank
Powell, who started in life as a newspaper re
porter, studied medicine, had a varied career on
the frontier, was associated with Cody In the
Wild West show In which he was known as
“White Beaver” and the “medicine man of the
Winnebagoes™ and ended his career in his na-
tive Wisconsin where he was mayor of one town
and a practicing physician in another.
Both “Buckskin Sam” and “Roving Joe” were
somewhat anomalous characters In that they
were both heroes of dime novels and w ters of
such literature. “Buckskin Sam” was Maj. Sam
8. Hall, born on the frontier where he led an
adventurous life before turning his attention to
producing such thrillers as “Double Dan, the
Dastard ; or, The Pirates of the Pecos” and “Ker-
whoop, ke-whoo!; or, The Taruntula of Taos.”
Later he made his home In the East where he,
“a wiry little man,” according to one historian,
“occasionally showed his virile Western man.
hood by going on a shooting rampage at his home
in Wilmington, Delaware.” Joseph E. Badger
was also a Westerner who wrote the story of
his life on the frontier, ealling it “Roving Joe”
and signing it “A. H. Post.” Later he became
one of Beadle's star writers under his own name
of Badger.
As for “Deadwood Dick” and “Diamond Dick,”
the “originals” of both have been legion. But
the best evidence Is that “Deadwood Dick” was
a purely fictitious character, created by Edward
L. Wheeler, a writer for Beadle and Adams, and
the first “Deadwood Dick” story appeared in
Beadie's Half-Dime Library in 1878. “It was not
Wheeler's first novel,” says Edmund Pearson in
his book “Dime Novels; or, Following an OM
Trall in Popular Literature” (Little, Brown and
Company) “but never again in all his lst of
alliterations did he ever chance upon a name so
felleitous or a character so appealing to his read.
ers as that of Deadwood Dick.”
As early as 1006 an “original” of “Deadwoin!
Dick,” a certain Frank Palmer, died in Denver.
In 1920 another “original™ died in Los Angeles
this time being Richard Bullock, who had been
& guard on the stagecoaches which brought bul.
lion out of the Black Hills. In recent years, and
until his death in 1930, a certain Richard W.
Clark of South Dakota was widely publicized as
the "original of Deadwood Dick.” Says Pearson,
“There is a faraway resemblance between the
pictures of the old frontiersman, aged eighty-
two (in 1928) and the drawings of the young
desperado of the eighties In Mr. Wheeler's sto-
ries. I fancy that this distant resemblance is all
that obtains between the career of Richard Clark
and Deadwood Dick.”
As for “Diamond Dick™—in 1882 Beadle and
Adams published “Diamond Dick,
the early ones
Nebraska at the age of nineteen, became an we.
mond Dick” was made known,
West Show business and later, when he snd
Cody quarreled, produced his own show.
“Old Grizzly” was one of the most Interesting
of all the “originals” of dime novel heroes. He
was James Capon Adams, born near Seneca
Lake, N. Y., who became famous as a bear tamer
because he was accustomed to go about the
country riding on an enormous grizzly bear with
a second similar huge benst as a sort of a body.
guard for him. His dime novel fame started in a
book written by his mephew, James Fenimore
Cooper Adams, who was himself later known as
“Bruin” Adams and was the subject of several
dime novels by Col. Prentiss Ingraham.
© by Western Newspaper Union.
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