The dime novel, what it was and what it was not. Beadle's instructions to authors. Western scouts as characters in the novels. Authors, Artists, and Readers Beadle authors among the best of the minor writers of the time. Louisa M. Alcott wrote some thrillers.
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George G. White one of Beadle's most prolific artists. Woodcuts engraved by John Karst. Albert W. Aiken and Mark Twain. Early Days in Cooperstown and Buffalo Wherein is given the Beadle genealogy and the birth of Erasmus. With his brother Irwin, he starts his own sterotype foundry, 1850.