Beadle's Pocket Library No. 140

Catalog Description *Captain Arizona: The King Pin of Road-Agents; or, Patent-Leather Joe's Big Game* by Philip S. Warne, serialized in this Beadle and Adams dime novel. A Western romance of wild mountain life centered on the titular road-agent and outlaw leader who operates in the Sierra Nevada Mountains near the Overland stage route. In the opening chapters, Arizona and his gang—Golconda Saul and an Irishman called Jimmie—halt a stagecoach carrying the wealthy millionaire Stephen Rensalier and a young woman, Hortense Rensalier. Arizona forces the elderly gentleman to play tin cans as cymbals and sing "From Greenland's Icy Mountains" for entertainment before boarding the coach to speak privately with Hortense. He discovers she is his long-lost sister and that she has come West to care for their relative. The narrative emphasizes Arizona's boldness, wit, and surprising gentility beneath his outlaw exterior, while introducing mysteries regarding family connections and hidden identities.