KnowraDime novelLinked fromLinked fromThe 13 pages that link to Dime novel, each with the reason it gives.All 13Broader topic 3Related 7Narrower topic 1Compared with 2Western filmRelated: Dime novels circulated plots and character types that early Westerns adapted.Pulp magazineCompared with: It shared pulp's mass-market audience but appeared as a book rather than a magazine.Serial fictionBroader topic: Dime novels carried serial storytelling into inexpensive popular print.Buffalo BillNarrower topic: Dime novels spread the frontier persona that Cody later embodied onstage.Popular fictionBroader topic: Dime novels brought adventure stories to expanding audiences at low prices.Wild West showRelated: Dime novels helped create the appetite for frontier heroes that the live shows dramatized.Western fictionRelated: Dime novels helped popularize frontier heroes and sensational Western plots before film dominated the genre.Frontier mythRelated: Popular frontier fiction circulated heroic versions of western life to mass audiences.Popular literatureBroader topic: It shows how low-cost formats built a mass market for entertaining stories.Wild Bill HickokRelated: Dime novels helped turn Hickok from a living man into a sensational character.E. Phillips OppenheimCompared with: Oppenheim's audience overlapped with mass-market adventure readers, though his books circulated as mainstream novels.Nat LoveRelated: The popularity of Western adventure fiction shaped the public vocabulary through which Love’s nickname was understood.WesternRelated: Dime novels popularized frontier heroes and episodes that later became Western film material.