BEADLE'S HALF DIME LIBRARY
1877, BEADLE AND ADAMS.
| Vol. I. | Single Number | Beadle And Adams, Publishers, No. 98 William Street, New York. | Price, 5 cents | No. 1 |
Deadwood Dick
The Prince Of The Road;
or,
The Black Rider of the Black Hills.
BY EDWARD L. WHEELER.
| CHAPTER I. | CHAPTER II. | CHAPTER III. | ||
| CHAPTER IV. | CHAPTER V. | CHAPTER VI. | ||
| CHAPTER VII. | CHAPTER VIII. | CHAPTER IX. | ||
| CHAPTER X. | CHAPTER XI. | CHAPTER XII. | ||
| CHAPTER XIII. | CHAPTER XIV. | CHAPTER XV. | ||
| CHAPTER XVI. |
CHAPTER I.
FEARLESS FRANK TO THE RESCUE.
On the plains, midway between Cheyenne and the Black Hills, a trainhad halted for a noonday feed. Not a railway train, mind you, but aline of those white-covered vehicles drawn by strong-limbed mules,which are most properly styled "prairie schooners."
There were four wagons of this type, and they had been drawn in acircle about a camp-fire, over which was roasting a savory haunch ofvenison. Around the camp-fire were grouped half a score of men, allrough, bearded, and grizzled, with one exception. This being a youthwhose age one could have safely put at twenty, so perfectly developedof physique and intelligent of facial appearance was he. There wassome