Deadwood Dick The Prince Of The Road Or The Black Rider Of The Black Hills

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This book is one of the many adventures featuring the Western fictional character named Deadwood Dick. The name became so widely known in its time that it was used to advantage by several men who actually resided in Deadwood, South Dakota.

Deadwood Dick is a fictional character who appears in a series of stories, or "dime novels", published between 1877 and 1897 by Edward Lytton Wheeler (1854/5-1885).

Welcome to the Black Hills of the 1880s, where you will meet a host of rowdies ranging from madams to stagecoach robbers, from tall-tale tellers to killers.

'Deadwood Dick Jr. Branded; or, Red Rover at Powder Pocket' is a novel revolving around a fictional character named Deadwood Dick who is a cowboy. The story in this particular volume begins with the engineer and fireman giving their attention to what was going on at the express car. The messenger had refused to open the door when ordered to do so, and had already killed one man and wounded another, firing through the barred ventilator close up under the roof. The robbers were preparing to use dynamite. Back in the cars the others were holding up the passengers, but without any attempt at robbing them. This, of itself, was proof that the express car was the objective point; they meant to risk nothing by attempting to make the robbery general. By some accident, or by some passenger daring all to take the initiative, the robbers might lose control in one of the cars, and if that happened, and they kept the people in the cars together, they might be successful in beating the robbers off. On the other hand, one man standing just within each door, with a cocked and leveled Winchester in hand, and his finger on the trigger, they had all the advantage in their favor, and might hold it as long as they desired.

This book argues for the importance of 'cowboy masculinity,' from late nineteenth-century dime novels, to the writings of Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, Theodore Roosevelt, John Steinbeck, and Owen Wister, and analyzes the democratic politics of masculinity in American literature and positions the American West as central to modernism.