Seth Jones and Deadwood Dick on Deck

In the 1860s, the publishing company Beadle and Company began publishing short, cheap adventure novels about the wilderness, the Wild West, pirates and the such other rousing topics. These "dime novels" soon became a national phenomenon. In 1966, Odyssey Press published a slim volume including two of these novels along with an introduction by UCLA professor Philip Durham.

Seth Jones or the Captives of the Frontier is a snappy adventure following woodsman and Indian fighter Seth Jones as he helps rescue a young maiden who has been captured by the Indians in the wilderness of New York state just after the American Revolution. This is basically a fun page-turner and of interest for anyone wanting to read the sort of thing that succeeded as show more mass entertainment literature 150 years ago in the U.S.

The second novel in the volume is Deadwood Dick on Deck by Edward L. Wheeler. show less