Oll Coomes 2 hr 38 min read

A frontier ranger contends with a mysterious 'aerial demon' haunting the mountains, a dime-novel blend of Western adventure and fantastic marvel.

Oll Coomes's 1879 dime novel mixes frontier action with an early flying-machine wonder. Fast, lurid, historically curious period fiction. Read it for a genuine Beadle dime novel where the Wild West meets an aerial menace, a fascinating artifact of nineteenth-century popular fiction.

In its time

Published in 1879, during the 1870s, under the sea and around the moon.

Reading it

2 hr 38 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).