Beadle's Dime Library No. 719

Catalog Description This publication is *The New York Weekly* (August 3, 1892), containing the opening chapter of "A Romance of Grand Gulch" by George C. Jenks, featuring protagonist "Dude" Arthur Grier. Set in a mining camp in Southern Arizona, the story opens with a saloon confrontation where Grier, a genteel young man, faces down the desperado Jim Townley over an insult to a local girl named Lucy Laurent. After sparing Townley's life, Grier escorts Lucy and her intoxicated father home to their fortified shanty on a mountainside. Townley ambushes Grier on the trail but is thwarted by a fashionable, mysterious stranger—identified as "Boston Bob, the Sport Detective"—who disarms and subdues the desperado with ease. This appears to be a serialized frontier romance with elements of detective fiction and mining-camp adventure.