Beadle's New York Dime Library No. 452

1887 · 32 pages

This issue of the pulp magazine features "The Spot Saint's Mission" by J. C. Cowdrick, serialized fiction set in Silver Nugget, Colorado, 1880. The protagonist is Hannibal Long, a ragged, elderly preacher called the "Spot Saint from Scarecrow," who enters the Green Bottle Saloon exhorting patrons to repent. When the bully Dan Gilbert confronts him, Long produces a revolver from his tattered coat and forces Gilbert to back down. After shaking hands peacefully, Long reveals his mission is reforming the world and dethroning Evil. A strikingly handsome young man then enters—described as twenty-five years old, dark-complexioned with a distinctive small, colorful necktie contrasting his dark corduroy suit. The story combines Western frontier setting with moral melodrama.

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