1. Daring Davy The Young Bear Killer; or the Trail of the Border Wolf
Presented by:
Briana Stewart and Mallory Chojnacki

2. Author Wrote over 330 dime novels in 60 year career
St. George Henry Rathborne
Also known as
Harry St. George
30 others
Wrote over 330 dime novels in 60 year career
Probably more

3. Published by Beadle’s Half Dime Library
“Beedle Dime usted to sell a dime novel for $0.10 cents which was pretty cheep for a dime novel I tell you. They was bully stories about filing indians and killing bears and wolfs and cutting a notch in your gun when you had killed a nother indian, a feller can read one of them all day and sumbody is killed on every page and it is terrible xciting. Beedle dime died very ritch and they don’t sell enny of his novels now. It is too bad for they was the best I have ever seen.” Richard E. Shute

4. Summary
Scorned childhood friend hires outlaws to kidnap Davy Crockett’s bride. Manages to lose her three times, during which childhood friend Barbara Warner changes her mind about the kidnapping and parts ways with the outlaws. Crockett finally manages to save his love after Barbara kills the Border Wolf and sacrifices herself for Rosebud Thornton. The outlaws get hanged throughout the story.

5. Technology GUNS!! Telescope Watch Sawmill
Used by everyone, seen as an advantage
Telescope
Rube Long gets called this because of his tendency to pull his head into his clothes
Watch
Used by the outlaws of the story
Good guys used nature
Sawmill
Wheel at the sawmill had algae growing on it and now it is haunted, grinds grains there

6. Science Astronomy Pharmacology Phrenology Supernatural
Talks about Jupiter leads the way across the sky. Was the way Davy told time.
Pharmacology
Poison used to subdue Rosebud
Phrenology
All the outlaws are ugly with scars, except for Barbara who in fact becomes good at the end.
Barbara has black eyes and has dark hair.
Supernatural
Ghosts are believed to be in the mill.
Old Crone is believed to be a witch.
Border Wolf thinks that Crockett is coming back from the dead for him.

7. Close Reading
Science works in the favor of the outlaws more than the protagonist. However, technology works for the protagonist more than the antagonist.
Outlaws are terrible at aiming and always miss.

8. Conclusion
Technology and Science plays a part in the story, however the story focuses on entertaining the reader with heroic tales of Davy Crockett.

9. Works Cited
St. George, Harry. "Daring Davy, The Young Bear Killer: Or, The Trail of the Border Wolf." Beadle's Half Dime Library 19 Aug. 1979: Print.
"Beadle and Adams Archives." University of Delaware. Shannon Lawson, Nov Web. 28 Oct. 2016
Thomas, Lynn, Bryan Conant, Tara L. Dirst, Anitha Paruchuri, Samual T. Huang, and Mark A. Williams. The House of Beadle and Adams and Its Dime and Nickel Novels: The Story of Vanished Literature. Northern Illinois University Libraries, Web. 28 Oct