Transcriber’s Notes: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Additional Transcriber’s Notes are at the end. * * * * * Semi-Monthly Novels Series. No. 205. BEADLE’S DIME NOVELS [Illustration] THE GRAY SCALP. BEADLE AND COMPANY, 98 WILLIAM STREET, NEW YORK. Am. News Co., 119 & 121 Nassau St., N. Y. * * * * * A FOREST HEROINE! Beadle’s Dime Novels, No. 206, TO ISSUE TUESDAY, JUNE 21st, Will present a richly racy romance of the woods, viz: BUCKSKIN BILL; OR, The White Demon of the Woods. A ROMANCE OF THE BLACKFOOT COUNTRY. BY GUY GREENWOOD, AUTHOR OF “THE PHANTOM FOE; OR, THE MAID OF MONTMORENCI,” ETC. Buckskin Bill is a character. The Far West produces many odd specimens of men, but none whose claim to oddity is stronger than Bill’s. Rough as a bear, he is gentle as a fawn. Brave as a lion, he is afraid of a young girl’s frown. Untutored as a savage, he is yet as wise and shrewd as a minister of war. In his daughter we have his perfect contrast. The beautiful child-woman is not only grace itself, but is bravery itself; and though apparently as wild as the mustang which she rides, is as true to a pure woman’s instincts as if raised as a petted child of the parlor. The secondary persons of the stirring story are the captain of the expedition of observation; the dreaded Demon Slayer, whose track seemed marked with the blood of the Blackfeet, and the Indian chief, whose cunning and thirst for scalps gives the leading incidents to the drama. The novel is alive with action, rapid in its incident-movement, exciting and strange. ☞ For sale by all Newsdealers and Booksellers; or sent, post-paid, to any address, on receipt of price--Ten Cents. BEADLE AND COMPANY, Publishers, 98 William Street, New York. * * * * * [Illustration] * * * * * THE GRAY SCALP; OR, THE BLACKFOOT BRAVE. BY EDWARD WILLETT, _Author of the following Dime Novels_: 10. _THE HIDDEN HOME._ 111. _NED STARLING._ 119. _THE FIVE CHAMPIONS._ 125. _THE HUNTED LIFE._ 132. _OLD HONESTY._ 139. _THE BORDER FOES._ 145. _THE MOUNTAINEER._ 149. _THE HUNTER’S PLEDGE._ 159. _SNOW-BIRD._ 170. _BORDER AVENGERS._ 187. _THE OUTLAWS’ PLOT._ NEW YORK: BEADLE AND COMPANY, PUBLISHERS, 98 WILLIAM STREET. * * * * * Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by BEADLE AND COMPANY, In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. (No. 205.) * * * * * THE GRAY SCALP. CHAPTER I. A MIDNIGHT ATTACK. “Hurrah for Oregon! says I. That’s the place for Denny, and mesilf is the boy who is bound to have a good shlice av the fine lands, and who has a better right?”