Facts about Dime Novel

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   Young working-class women were a significant readership for dime novels, which frequently featured adventure-seeking heroines in stories called 'dime novel sensations.

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   The dime novel format declined in the early twentieth century, largely replaced by pulp magazines printed on inexpensive wood-pulp paper.

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   Frontier heroes like Buffalo Bill and outlaws like Jesse James became recurring characters in dime novel series, shaping enduring myths of the American West.

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   Beadle and Adams, a New York publishing firm, is widely credited with launching the dime novel format in 1860.

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   Popularized in America during the 1860s, the dime novel was a cheap paperback typically sold for ten cents and aimed at working-class readers.

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