The Deadwood Dick Library, Vol. III, No. 35

This issue of the Half-Dime Library (No. 35, November 8, 1899) features the conclusion of a Deadwood Dick, Jr. serial by Edward L. Wheeler, titled "Deadwood Dick of Deadwood: The Picked Party." The story opens in Billy-Goat Gulch at dusk, where Edwin Booth Snowbank, a Black tragedian aspiring to perform Hamlet on the metropolitan stage, plays banjo while soliloquizing about his theatrical ambitions. A masked road-agent with a cocked revolver confronts Snowbank, interrogating him about Colonel Yankee Doodle Yuba from Yuba Dam, whom Snowbank serves as body-servant. The issue includes a comprehensive list of previous Deadwood Dick, Jr. adventure titles, each featuring various mining camps, Western settlements, and criminal pursuits across American geography. The serial western adventure genre dominates this pulp magazine's contents.