Beadle's Dime Library No. 809

1894 · 32 pages

This issue of *Dan Dunn* presents the opening serial installment "Dan Dunn, the Soft-Hand Sport; or, The Gambler Broker's Short-Stop" by Joseph E. Badger, Jr. The story opens at Kansas City's Union Depot, where cowboy Dan Dunn encounters David McCoy, a fellow range-man in acute distress. McCoy explains that his brother Ben has been killed in a cattle dispute and is being transported home in a coffin. Receiving a telegram that his mother is dying, McCoy attempts suicide by train before being rescued by Dunn and an Irish railroad worker named Darby Devine. McCoy reveals his family tragedy: his mother and sister Molly await him at home, unaware of Ben's death. The narrative combines Western frontier vernacular with urban melodrama, following Dunn's involvement in McCoy's mounting troubles.

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