Beadle's New Dime Novels: The Apache Guide

This serialized adventure novel, "The Apache Guide: The Rescue" by the author of "Seth Jones," follows the narrator's efforts to recover Preston Kendall and his sister Enola after they are captured by Apache Indians near the Sierra Nevada. Having witnessed their kidnapping due to his own negligence, the narrator vows to rescue them. He crosses the Sierra Nevada with a party of miners, gathers information about the Indian band at Marysville, then travels to San Francisco to seek help from the Kendalls' parents. There he locates Mr. Gustavus Kendall, a gentleman recently arrived from New Orleans, and explains the situation. The distraught father offers substantial resources—money, horses, and armed hunters—to mount a rescue expedition, demonstrating his determination to recover both children.