The genre helped define the myth of the Old West. In 1860, the publishers Erastus and Irwin Beadle released a new series of cheap...
The Birth of the Dime Novel
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Dime Novels
The Dime Novelists
Dime novelists fed the voracious public appetite for daring exploits and hero-making. Much of the violent image of the West was due to pulp westerns...