Buffalo Bill's Double; or, The Desperado Detectives

This issue of *Beadle and Adams'* weekly (1898) features "Buffalo Bill's Double; or, The Desperado Detectives" by Colonel Prentiss Ingraham. The frontier adventure follows Lieutenant Duke Damar, who receives an urgent letter from his dying father while commanding cavalry scouts in Indian territory. Buffalo Bill (William F. Cody), Surgeon Frank Powell, and Damar's servant Spur volunteer to escort him through Sioux lines. During their escape, they ambush a war party but Cody is shot. Damar returns to camp for aid, then slips away again with Spur toward his father's home. The narrative emphasizes military duty, scout craft, and comradeship amid Apache and Sioux threats. The serialized story emphasizes cavalry heroics and frontier survival during the Indian Wars period.