| 41. | His dime novels became very popular and to have more material to add he occasionally traveled through the country.
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| 42. | While young boys were statistically the largest demographic of dime novel western readers, the stories reached a nationwide audience.
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| 43. | He plays Ernest Pratt, a hard-drinking, gambling, womanizing writer of dime novels about a heroic character named Nicodemus Legend.
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| 44. | He was able to write for many genres including detective dime novels, westerns, and serials that ran in newspapers.
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| 45. | Dime novel western readers read to escape daily urban life in exchange for some Wild West action and adventure.
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| 46. | In contrast with the socially accepted moral hero of 1870, the infamous outlaw first appeared in an 1877 dime novel.
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| 47. | They're all featured in the dime novels Sonny reads about famous gunfighters and other notorious figures of the Wild West.
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| 48. | Literary scholars have theorized that reading western dime novels was a way to rekindle the manly spirit of the Frontier.
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| 49. | As his portfolio of images grew he made deals with dime novel publishers and sold copies directly to the public.
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| 50. | Dime novels were slowly replaced by pulp magazines at the turn of the century, and almost completely vanished by 1920.
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