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This story of border vengeance, retribution, and all out war, takes place on the early American frontier, and narrates the bloody and suspenseful conflict, between fur trappers, Indian fighters and Indian slayers, and U.S. cavalry men vs. hostile Indians and their tribes. This story is replete with detailed descriptions of frontier warfare including the taking of scalps as a war trophy (or human trophy) which was a practice that was done by both sides, settler and the Indians. The bloody scalp of your enemy be it a settler’s scalp if you were an Indian, or an Indian scalp if you were a settler, could be kept as a decoration or sold to a company or government for cash. The Indian slayer that is on the cover of this edition of Beadle’s has killed two Indians, a girl and her boyfriend, has removed their scalps with a hatchet or scalping knife, and has their half naked corpses on his horse, while he rides the animal at full speed through the dead Indians’ village, while waving their bloody detached scalps in the air, while the Native villagers watch in horror and amazement. The title of this edition of Beadle’s is entitled, “The Scalp King, or the Human Thunderbolt. –A Tale of Border Vengeance–“
“Swinging aloft the blood dripping scalps of the Indian girl and her lover, he dashed at headlong speed through their village.”
Title The scalp king, or, The human thunderbolt : a tale of border vengeance
Author Adams, J. F. C., Captain
Publisher Beadle and Adams, No. 98 William Street
Publication Date 1883-01-30
Copyright Date 1883
Series Beadle’s half dime library
Number Beadle’s half dime library ; vol. XII, no. 288
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