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Learn More -- Women in the American West -- Women and the Romance of the West -- Dime Novels
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Dime Novels
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Dime novels offered adventure tales of the Wild West to a national audience. Popular, cheap, and formulaic, these novels sensationalized the Western hero--and heroine. Early novels introduced readers to the Western heroine, disguised as a man, who saved the day. The beautiful woman with the toughness and skill of a man became a recurring character.
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