Ep 166-Winter of Wayback, 1877 (Deadwood Dick)
Feb 20, 2017•1 hr 9 min
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Episode description
We're traveling back in time to 1877 to read a popular, serialized dime-store novel about lots of people shooting guns in the Old West. We talk about the popularity of dime-store novels, and how they correlated to rising literacy rates in the late 19th century. Plus: a story about coal miners being crushed under the boot of Gilded Age capitalism. And all our usual jibber jabber.
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