1906: 18 nickel novels @ $50 each $ 900.00 Royalties on book, Dillingham 10.20 "The World's Wonder," 300.00 "A Romance of the Earthquake," 250.00 "The Sheriff Who Lost and Won," 300.00 "The Reporter's Scoop," 60.00 "The Deputy Sheriff," 40.00 "The Red Light at Rawlin's," 350.00 "Cast Away by Contract,". 75.00 "Special One-Five-Three," 350.00 "The Disputed Claim," 500.00 "Fencing with Foes," 450.00 "The Billionaire's Dilemma,". 200.00 -------- Total $3785.20 1907: "Under Sealed Orders," $ 250.00 "The Pacific Pearlers," 450.00 "Call of the West," 200.00 "Wilderness Gold-Hunter," 500.00 "Dupes of Destiny," 75.00 "On the Stroke of Four," 400.00 "The Hero of the Car," 300.00 "An Aerial Romance," 200.00 "West-Indies Mix-Up," 60.00 33 nickel novels @ $50 each 1650.00 -------- Total $4085.00 In that remarkable group of authors who made the dime novel famous, the late Col. Prentiss Ingraham was one of the giants. These "ready writers" thought nothing of turning out a thousand words of original matter in an hour, in the days when the click of the typewriter was unknown, and of keeping it up until a novel of 70,000 words was easily finished in a week. But to Col. Ingraham belongs the unique distinction of having composed and written out a complete story of 35,000 words with a fountain pen, between breakfast and breakfast. His equipment as a writer of stories for boys was most varied and valuable, garnered from his experience as an officer in the Confederate army, his service both on shore and sea in the Cuban war for independence, and in travels in Mexico, Austria, Greece and Africa. But he is best known and will be most loyally remembered for his Buffalo Bill tales, the number of which he himself scarcely knew, and which possessed peculiar value from his intimate personal friendship with Col. Cody. XXI. A WRITER'S READING