Beadle's Dime Novels No. 100

Karai Bo; or, The Outlaw's Fate, by J. Stanley Henderson, serialized in Beadle and Company's pulp publication (No. 100), centers on a violent drifter. Burt Adams, a scarred, armed mountaineer, arrives at a remote California tavern near the Sierra Nevada and boastfully recounts murdering and robbing an elderly Spanish landowner, killing a mestizo servant, and selling the man's daughter to Native Americans. A young dark-skinned man reading a newspaper and a Malay named Karaibo hear his confession and respond to his racial slurs with restraint. After Adams departs, the young man orders Karaibo to track the outlaw, while the old Mexican customer—seemingly connected to the crimes—also follows. Adams camps in nearby timber, relying on his trained horse Bill as a sentinel. The narrative employs Western frontier violence and boasts of criminal enterprise as plot drivers.