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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
tors, but No. 46 is credited to Lieutenant Henry L. Boone, one
of the pseudonyms of Percy B. St. John.
Nos. 53, The Texan Ranger; or, The Rose of the Rio Grande,
and 54, The Mexican Bravo; or, The Fair Maiden's Rescue,
both issued in 1870, are from Professor J. H. Ingraham's The
Texan Ranger; or, The Maid of Matamoras, which appeared
in N. M. Curtis's The Prairie Guide, copyrighted 1847. No. 58,
Bel of Prairie Eden, is a brief version of George Lippard's
Mexican romance of the same name published by Hotchkiss
and Company of Boston in 1848.
Meanwhile, Munro was following his No. 28 with other Gerald
Carlton items: in 1865, No. 34, The Three Daring Trappers;
or, Adventures Among the Indians and Beavers, and No. 52,
Black Bill, the Trapper; or, Hunting Gold and Indians, both
involving the heroes of No. 28, Black Bill and Brose Martin.
In No. 28 the enemies are the Navajoes, in No. 34, the Pawnees,
and in No. 52, Mexican outlaws and Comanches.
In 1866, Carlton wrote Munro's No. 75, Old Norte, the Hunt-
er; or, Adventures in Texas, a real thriller, involving Pawnees,
wicked Mexicans, and Navajoes; in 1867, he wrote Nos. 102,
Old Zeke; or, The Wild Hunter of the Rocky Mountains, and
107, Red Rattlesnake, the Pawnee; or, Life on the Border,
two fast moving stories of ranch life. In 1868, he added No. 131,
Mad Betsey; or, Fortune Hunting in Texas, the story of a
shipwreck in the Gulf, early days of Galveston, and ranching
in East Texas.
Beadle's writers were rapidly adding to the Texas legend.
Three new Texas novels in 1870 and six in 1871 appeared in
the "Yellowback Series." In 1871, C. Dunning Clark, the his-
torian, under his pseudonym W. J. Hamilton, wrote The Prairie
Queen; or, Tom Western, the Texan Ranger. It first appeared
as No. 232, "Beadle's Dime Novels"; it was reissued under the
same title as No. 213, "Beadle's Pocket Novels" (a series of
272 issues published 1874 to 1884). It was again reissued as
No. 72, "Beadle's Half-Dime Library" (a series of 987 issues,
1877 to 1904), this time with a new title, Mad Tom Western,
the Texan Ranger; or, The Queen of the Prairies. Under the
new title it also appeared as No. 56 of "Beadle's Pocket Li-
brary" (a series of 492 issues between 1884 and 1893).
Beadle had the reputation of keeping popular novels con-
tinually in print. A second printing within a week of the issue
date was common. Many of them were reprinted several times
in the original series before being reissued in one of the other334
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