A non-genre anthology, includes an introduction by Bleiler, and eight stories:
- Francis Worcester Doughty's The Bradys and The Girl Smuggler,
- the anonymously written Frank James on the Trail,
- Frederic Van Rensselaer Dey's Scylla, The Sea Robber, or Nick Carter and the Queen of Sirens,
- Edward J. Wheeler's Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road,
- Colonel Prentiss Ingraham's Adventures of Buffalo Bill From Boyhood to Manhood,
- Edward S. Ellis's The Huge Hunter,
- William Gilbert Patten's Frank Merriwell's Nobility, and
- Horatio Alger's Adrift in New York.
The "dime novels" are, at the most, novelettes.
