Mugging dime novel cover, Frank Leslie's Pleasant Hours, Vol. XXXVIII No. 3, April 1885, "Bayard Taylor and the Mexican Bandits", anonymous. Based on a true story of the American poet and travel writer. The bird-abducting child illustration is for "Saved from an Eagle's Talons", anonymous; and the defiled corpse illustration is for "Her Strange Foe", anonymous.
The Steam Man of the West







