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Pat Mulroony's Pard
Pat Mulroony's Pard This weekly story paper from 1892 contains a serial by Emerson Rodman titled "Pat Mulroony's Pard: Hezekiah Smith, the Backwoodsman." The narrative follows two frontier wanderers—Hezekiah Smith, a taciturn New Englander, and Pat Mulroony, an Irish adventurer—who meet at a forest camp on the Ohio River and agree to travel downriver together. Their guarded introduction hints both possessed secretive pasts they wish to conceal. After spotting a flatboat drifting past, they attempt to board it despite its armed occupant's threats. Once aboard, they encounter Luther Waring, a young man escorting his fiancée Virginia Lander and her father toward downriver settlements through hostile Indian territory. The narrative emphasizes wilderness adventure, frontier dialogue, and character interaction typical of pulp fiction adventure serials of the period.