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Silver Rifle, the Girl Trailer: A Dime-Novel Western of Frontier Tracking, Captivity Rescue, and Revenge - Couverture souple

Harbaugh, T. C.

 
9788028330422: Silver Rifle, the Girl Trailer: A Dime-Novel Western of Frontier Tracking, Captivity Rescue, and Revenge

Synopsis

Silver Rifle, the Girl Trailer is a compact frontier romance shaped by the conventions of the nineteenth-century dime novel: rapid incident, heightened peril, moral clarity, and a fascination with wilderness skill. Centering on a remarkable female tracker whose rifle and resolve mark her as both heroine and avenger, the tale blends pursuit narrative, captivity romance, and borderland melodrama. Its style is direct, energetic, and episodic, placing it within the popular literature that transformed the American frontier into a stage for courage, danger, and national mythmaking. T. C. Harbaugh was a prolific American writer of sensational and adventure fiction, especially associated with inexpensive story papers and dime novels. His familiarity with the tastes of mass readers—who wanted speed, suspense, and vivid character types—helped shape works like this one. Harbaugh's career reflects a period when popular authors supplied an expanding reading public with accessible tales of the West, heroism, and social order tested by violence. This book is recommended to readers interested in early popular Westerns, women in frontier fiction, and the roots of American adventure storytelling. Though brief and melodramatic, it offers a revealing glimpse into the imaginative machinery of dime-novel culture.

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