Nick Whiffles is a fictional American frontier character which first appeared in a serial by John Hovey Robinson (1820–1867) published in
Street & Smith's ''
New York Weekly
The ''New York Weekly'' was a story newspaper published from 1858–1910 in New York City. Under related names it was published from 1846–1915.
The paper had its origins in 1846 as the ''New York Dispatch'' (1846–1854), and ''New ...
'' from June 5 to September 11, 1858. It was also adapted into a melodramatic play which became the most widely-played frontier play prior to the
American Civil War.
[Hall, Roger A]
Performing the American Frontier, 1870-1906
p. 31 (2001)
Subsequent Whiffles stories followed including ''Mountain Max; or Nick Whiffles on the Border: A Tale of the Bushwackers in Missouri'' (1861), which inserted Whiffles into a Civil War story,
[Fahs, Alice]
The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North & South, 1861-1865
p. 246 (2001) and two serials published in the ''
New York Sunday Mercury'' in 1859 and 1862. After Robinson's death,
Edward S. Ellis
Edward Sylvester Ellis (April 11, 1840 – June 20, 1916) was an American author who was born in Ohio and died at Cliff Island, Maine.
Ellis was a teacher, school administrator, journalist, and the author of hundreds of books and magazine ...
contributed two Whiffles stories for pulp publisher
Beadle and Adams in 1871 and 1873 under the pseudonym J.F.C. Adams.
[Cox, J. Randolph]
The Dime Novel Companion: A Source Book
pp. 279-80 (2003)[Johannnsen, Albert]
(c. 1950)
Bibliography
* ''Nick Whiffles or The Trapper Guide: A Tale of the North West'' (''New York Weekly'' serial 1858)
[(26 June 1858)]
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''The Rockland County Journal'', p. 3.
* ''Pathaway, or the Mountain Outlaws'' (''
New York Sunday Mercury'' 1859), later published as ''Nick Whiffles, the Old Trapper of the Nor'West''
* ''Mountain Max; or Nick Whiffles on the Border: A Tale of the Bushwackers in Missouri'' (1861)
* ''Les trappeurs de la Baie d'Hudson'' (1858)
[Les trappeurs de la Baie d'Hudson entry](_blank)
Toronto Public Library, Retrieved 28 May 2015
References
External links
''Nick Whiffles, the Trapper Guide: A Tale of the North-west''(1877 printing) (via Google books)
''Nick Whiffles: A Drama in Three Acts'' (
Samuel French 1858) (via Google books)
''Pathaway, or Nick Whiffles on the trail''(c. 1882 edition) (via archive.org)
''Les trappeurs de la Baie d'Hudson''(1858), translated by Henri-Émile Chevalier
1858 plays
1858 American novels
Literary characters introduced in 1858
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