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