Beadle's Pocket Library No. 482

1893 · 32 pages

New York Ned in California: The Brothers of the League This issue of *Beadle and Adams* presents the opening serial installment by W. J. Hamilton, featuring New York Ned (Edward Elliot), a young New Yorker turned mountain ranger in 1850s California. The story depicts Ned as lieutenant to Captain Adam Lane, commanding a band of "Regulators"—frontier vigilantes combating organized banditry in the Sierra Nevada. After miners including the unfortunate Garry Burnet are murdered and robbed, the rangers camp to hunt down the culprits. When rangers capture Manuel de Castro, a Mexican spy, Ned interrogates him under torture (suspension by thumbs) until De Castro reveals he was sent by "the Brothers of the League"—the organized criminal band responsible for the murders and robberies terrorizing the district. The narrative emphasizes frontier justice, personal vengeance, and Ned's courage despite his prior eastern misfortunes.

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