Beadle's Half Dime Library, No. 77

1879 · 16 pages

This issue of *Beadle's Half-Dime Library* (1879) contains "Corduroy Charlie, the Boy Bravo; or, Deadwood Dick's Last Act" by Edward L. Wheeler. Set in Quartz City, a small Black Hills mining town, the story introduces Corduroy Charlie, a muscular, well-armed young man arriving with a wagon containing a mysterious woman (indicated by Indian driver Bad Medicine's reference to "fair maiden"). At the town's masked ball at the Big Schooner tavern, Charlie dances with a masked woman before being struck by McTurk, a bullying bullwhacker. Charlie demands satisfaction, and the two men exit into the street for a duel as the crowd follows. The narrative emphasizes frontier life, danger, and masculine confrontation in the mining region.

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