NMLP P-034390 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-09
Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter
Ann S. Stephens · Irwin P. Beadle & Co. (New York) · 1860
The story's true first publication was as a magazine serial in The Ladies' Companion in February-April 1839, more than two decades before the 1860 Beadle dime-novel book printing; the 1860 Beadle issue is nonetheless what collectors mean by 'the first dime novel.'
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-034390 for "Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter" by Ann S. Stephens (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-034390, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).