| 11. | Dime novels were the 19th-century equivalent of today's slice-and-splatter videos.
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| 12. | As the popularity of dime novels increased, original stories came to be the norm.
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| 13. | Dime novels played an initial role in mythologizing the West.
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| 14. | Even in the 19th century, dime novels glorified cowboy life.
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| 15. | A dime novel was intended to be read for pleasure.
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| 16. | These stories were later reprinted in the dime novel " Pluck and Luck ".
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| 17. | Violent passages in dime novels involving shoot-outs and scalping are common among these heroes.
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| 18. | The first profitable mass literature in America was the dime novel, which emerged in 1860.
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| 19. | James was among the most notorious Old West outlaws, his exploits sensationalized in dime novels.
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| 20. | In the late 1940s and early 1950s, collecting dime novels became popular, and prices soared.
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