You can read the first part of this blog post here.
Part 2 includes some of the covers and title pages of the Rube Burrow dime novels. I've also appended a bibliography on dime novels I compiled back in the day.
Further comments are below some of the covers.
Two of many dime novel resources online are here and here.
You can read this one at the Internet Archive.
George W. Agee was Superintendent of the Southern Express Company's Western Division and coordinated efforts to capture Burrow. Other dime novels draw heavily from his account.
William Ward's ca. 1900 novel; note the difference in subtitles between the cover and title page. Ward was a prolific dime novelist; he wrote more than 30 on Jesse James and his gang alone.
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The Log Cabin Library was published between about 1889 and 1897 by dime novel publisher Street and Smith; over 450 issues appeared. Burrow is a detective in this work of total fiction. Author W.B. Lawson was actually St. George Rathbone [1854-1898]. Like so many dime novels and similar literature, this item is very rare. The real Burrow did have some connection with Florida but not as a detective! An excellent review of Burrow's real Florida adventures by William Warren Rogers, Jr., can be found here. In the second footnote Dr. Rogers gives a bibliographical listing of all the Burrow dime novels.
This title by "Harry Hawkeye" was published in 1908. Hawkeye was actually Paul Emilius J. Lowe. You can read the book here. The drawing below is taken from Hawkeye.
Cover Source: Amazon
Source: Wikipedia
Source: Encyclopedia of Alabama
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