Beadle's Dime New York Library No. 47

1878 · 40 pages

Beadle's Dime Library, Vol. IV, No. 98 "The Prince of the Revolver" by Jos. E. Badger, Jr., presents a frontier duel narrative framed as stage-driver Ginger Dick's recounting to a saloon audience. A fastidiously dressed stranger confronts the notorious gunfighter Dutch Frank at a way station, first in a verbal altercation, then in a gunfight where the stranger demonstrates extraordinary marksmanship—disabling Frank's gun hand, then fatally shooting him from over a hundred yards away. The stranger then arrives at the "Hole in the Wall" saloon in Windy Gap, where he becomes the object of a wager between Ginger Dick and brawler Big Tom Noxon. Chapter II shifts perspective to the stranger—a young man lounging near mining diggings—whose backstory involves a man called "Gospel Dick" from the gold rush of 1850. The narrative blends Western frontier action with mystery regarding the protagonist's origins and mission.

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