Nick Whiffles

Fictional character

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 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.^[1]

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,^[2] and two serials published in the New York Sunday Mercury in 1859 and 1862. After Robinson's death, Edward S. Ellis contributed two Whiffles stories for pulp publisher Beadle and Adams in 1871 and 1873 under the pseudonym J.F.C. Adams.^[3]^[4]

Bibliography

Nick Whiffles or The Trapper Guide: A Tale of the North West (New York Weekly serial 1858)^[5]
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)^[6]

References

^ Hall, Roger A. Performing the American Frontier, 1870-1906, p. 31 (2001)
^ Fahs, Alice. The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North & South, 1861-1865, p. 246 (2001)
^ Cox, J. Randolph. The Dime Novel Companion: A Source Book, pp. 279-80 (2003)
^ Johannnsen, Albert. The House of Beadle and Adams (c. 1950)
^ (26 June 1858). Advertisement, The Rockland County Journal, p. 3.
^ Les trappeurs de la Baie d'Hudson entry, Toronto Public Library, Retrieved 28 May 2015

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