Beadle's Half Dime Library No. 1027

Catalog Description "Cowboy Rescuers in Cuba; Or, The Patriot Pilot" by Colonel Prentiss Ingraham (serialized in Beadle and Adams dime novel No. 1027, March 30, 1897) blends romantic melodrama with Cuban revolutionary warfare. Young American Hotspur Harry and his sister Lucita face execution under Spanish Colonel Blanco Bartello following a failed filibuster rescue mission. Bartello offers Harry's life in exchange for Lucita becoming his wife. Despite her hatred and her brother's protests, Lucita accepts to spare both Harry and overseer Vance Mendoza's life. The narrative centers on this forced betrothal, featuring conflicts between Spanish officers and American cowboys operating as filibusters attempting rescue operations. The story invokes patriotic sacrifice amid the Cuban struggle for independence from Spain.