Tag: Early American Popular Culture

Cobb’s False Knight: 1. The Castle and the Cot — An Alarm

By Oliver Raven on May 23, 2020 • ( 4 Comments )

THE FALSE KNIGHT or ROBBER OF THE BLACK FOREST A Story of Love, Mystery, and Adventure by SYLVANUS COBB, JR. Foreword The images the word “knight” conjures up might all be similar for most of us: Shining armour, bravery, jousting, glorious, bloody battles, castles, saving distressed damsels […]

Raising a Dime Novel: Cobb’s The False Knight — Begins Next Week

By Michael Guest on May 16, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

Give me them good ol’ days of guns, of snakes, an’ gapin’ jaws Of wolves an’ ragin’ catamounts, with blood upon their paws; W’en six-foot heroes courted girls that they had snatched away From out a bloody bandit’s clasp, an’ tramped him into clay. I wish we had […]

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Tag: Early American Popular Culture

Cobb’s False Knight: 1. The Castle and the Cot — An Alarm

Raising a Dime Novel: Cobb’s The False Knight — Begins Next Week