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Show THbSdVd Mustang Sam, Dead Eye and Kit Carson Go Under ' Auctioneer's Hammer. (By International News Service.) H NEW YORK, June 21. "Then H Young Wild West drew his trusty IH weapon, fired point blank at the mad- IH dened Redskin, clutched his desert 1 flower about the waist and, with his , jJ mustang, thundered through the In- I ID dian village" h IH Every boy remembers how he used 'I H to sneak his colored paper-back novel 1 of thrills from its hiding place, and ! IH at 'tho risk of a severe chastisement, ll pore frantically through the thrilling IH pages. Little did he or the father IHH and mother who objected, realize that H some day those very novels would be v jH regarded ns literary valuables and lH placed upon the unction block to be .iH sold huge prices. 1 ll Nevertheless. Dick Deadeye and. his jHP partner. "Koarin"' Bill went under : B the hammer here recently at the An-dersuh An-dersuh Galleries, and brought exactly - $3,198.20. IH As many mllllous wouldn't have bought tho thrills which all the fas- . clnating clan of the papor-backs gave IH to the youth of previous generations, ' ' i Some 316 dime novels of the old H jt style the kind in which an Indian bit ; toM the dust at every turn of the page mf were placed on sale. Thoy represented ' twenty years of effort on the part of Dr. Frank P. O'Brien, of this city, who has visited thirty states In making the collection of fast disappearing little j If fl book3 and pamphlets relating to ijj- I m American pioneer I'fc. jB: I Let the old-timers listen to some of I M the titles of Dr. O'Brien's collections. 'TO ' M and if they don't get an old-fashioned r,(gf. n thrill then, indeed, the memory of xj H their bohood has vanished from their m souls. m There was "Redtop' Rube, the Vigl- 9 MM lain Prince; or the Black ' Regulators H of Arizona." "Tombstone Dick, the Train Pilot: or The -Traitor's Trail;". M JH 'Pacific Pete, the Prince of the Re- M volver;" ."Kit Carson. King of rI-JP Guides." "Leadville Nick, the Boy ' P Sport; or. The Mad MIncr'3 Revenge;" "Arizona Joe. the Boy Pard of Texas W (M Jack;" "Lighthouse Ligo; or The . I Firebrand of the Everglades;" "The I , Desperate Dozen; or. Tho Fair 1; ' jHI Fiend;" "Nighthawk Kit oi', The y Daughter of the Ranch," and many lj many others. I Hl Just listen to the description which I 1 Hl Mustang Sam. the Mad Rider of the I IBI Plains, gives of himself; "You ax who jU i be? I'm Musluug Sam, the high Hl muckamuck of E Plurlbus Unum! I 1 Hl was got by a bull whale out of a ice- Di Hl berg. I kin yell louder, run furder, B ride faster, shoot straightcr, jump lj jH higher, tell bigger lies, eat more poor m dl bull and jump outside 0' more chain iH lightnin' than any other two legged 1 r9H critter as was ever pupped. I'm the j. WM man what swum tip the big Kenyon mIH of the Colorado on my back. I'm the IH critter what climbed up a greased 'Hfl rainbow and bit tho highest point off - IHI o' the new moon. I'm Mustang Sam." Despite all this Mustang Sam WU brought only -$G.;"0. The novels were bought by various collectors. The highest price was paid i for twenty-eight volumes of Beadle & u Co.'s weekly magazine, the Saturday u 41 Star Journal. Dr, Rcsenbach, acting 1H for a western collector, got the set . 1H for $ 1.02C. ViZvJi M |