Item - Job Dean, the Trapper

(Beadle's Dime Novels edition - source: NIU Libraries)

(Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport, Story, and Adventure (Octavo edition) edition - source: NIU Libraries)

Combined Summary

Online Full Text:	Northern Illinois University (Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport, Story, and Adventure (Octavo edition) edition) Northern Illinois University (Beadle's Dime Novels edition)
Series:	Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport, Story and Adventure (Octavo edition) — no. 183 Beadle's Dime Novels — no. 163 Beadle's Pocket Novels — no. 107
Alternate Title:	Job Dean's Tactics; or, The Captain's Fair Rescuer
Subjects / Tags:	Adventure stories Fortification Frontier and pioneer life Indian captivities Indians of North America Kansas Love stories Nebraska Soldiers Trappers Warfare Western stories Women heroes
Author:	North, Ingoldsby
Dates:	October, 1868 (Beadle's Dime Novels edition) July 30, 1878 (Beadle's Pocket Novels edition) October 15, 1887 (Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport, Story, and Adventure (Octavo edition) edition)
Publishers:	Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport, Story, and Adventure (Octavo edition) edition: Beadle and Adams (1872-1898) (New York (N.Y.): No. 98 William Street) -- United States Beadle's Dime Novels edition: Beadle and Company (New York (N.Y.): 98 William St.) -- United States
OCLC Numbers:	1039896494 (Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport, Story, and Adventure (Octavo edition) edition) 63532509 (Beadle's Dime Novels edition)
ENGL 330 Spring 2018's Thoughts:	"Captain Kessler and his crew engage a group of Indians in battle, during which their captain is seized and Harmer Dorlan is injured. Afterwards, Job Dean--one of the best trappers in the territory--arrives on the scene and promises to find the captain, while Dorlan is cared for by the lovely Margaret Boyntou in a story that is seemingly all their own. The apprehended captain is brought to the Indian camp, where he is gawked at and treated like criminal. He is bound, guarded, and begins to lose all hope until a beautiful Indian woman approaches him to give him food--and a thrill that he does not understand. All the while, Job Dean and his bunch are journeying to find and rescue Captain Kessler. When Dean engages in battle with and kills some Indian men, his past is brought to the front of his mind, and he relieves himself of the dark story that led him to his current circumstance. When they meet a stranger on their path in the middle of Dean’s account, a tangle of back stories reveals the murky pasts that lurk behind nearly everyone on the frontier."--Amy Freeman, undergraduate student at NIU enrolled in ENGL 330, Spring 2018 More reviews by ENGL 330 Spring 2018