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BEADLE'S HALF DIME LIBRARY

1877, BEADLE AND ADAMS.

Vol. I. Single BEADLE AND ADAMS, PUBLISHERS, Price, No. 1
Number. No. 98 WILLIAM STREET, NEW YORK. 5 cents




=Deadwood Dick,= THE PRINCE OF THE ROAD;
OR,
THE BLACK RIDER of the BLACK HILLS.

BY EDWARD L. WHEELER.




CHAPTER I.

FEARLESS FRANK TO THE RESCUE.


On the plains, midway between Cheyenne and the Black Hills, a train
had halted for a noonday feed. Not a railway train, mind you, but a
line of those white-covered vehicles drawn by strong-limbed mules,
which are most properly styled "prairie schooners."