Stanford's Dime Novel Collection (searchable? only Standford ID?)

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Stanford has a Dime Novel collection. It appears that about 8,000 items  have
been digitized.
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I need to search for "cowgirl" ("cow girl"), a term that may have started
here (or so says the Nov. 6, 1883 Nevada State Journal: "If she had not been
captured, this young lady might have become the wild cowgirl of the Texas
prairie, and afforded material for scores of dime novels.").
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However, the Stanford collection says that I need a Stanford ID to search.
WTF? Did they get any public grants for this, to block American researchers?
Maybe someone has a Stanford ID and can look?
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Also, I'm looking for "cow poke," "bear sign," "dough wrangler,"...
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_http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/dp/pennies/searchbrowse.html_
(http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/dp/pennies/searchbrowse.html)
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_http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/dp/pennies/home.html_
(http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/dp/pennies/home.html)

Stanford's Dime Novel and Story Paper Collection consists of over 8,000
individual items, and includes long runs of the major dime novel series (_Frank
Leslie's Boys of America_
(http://garamond.stanford.edu:9001/dp/owa/pnpack.draw?pid=27) , _Happy  Days_
(http://garamond.stanford.edu:9001/dp/owa/pnpack.draw?pid=72) , _Beadle's New  York Dime Library_
(http://garamond.stanford.edu:9001/dp/owa/pnpack.draw?pid=95) , etc.) and equally strong holdings of story
papers like  the _New  York Ledger_
(http://garamond.stanford.edu:9001/dp/owa/pnpack.draw?pid=596)  and _Saturday  Night_
(http://garamond.stanford.edu:9001/dp/owa/pnpack.draw?pid=597) .
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Both genres flourished from the middle to the close of the 19th century in
America and England (where the novels were known as "penny dreadfuls"), and
benefited from three mutually reinforcing trends: the vastly increased
mechanization of printing, the growth of efficient rail and canal shipping, and
ever-growing rates of literacy.
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The dime novels were aimed at youthful, working-class audiences and
distributed in massive editions at newsstands and dry goods stores. Though the  phrase
conjures up stereotyped yarns of Wild West adventure, complete with lurid
cover illustration, many other genres were represented: tales of urban outlaws,
detective stories, working-girl narratives of virtue defended, and costume
romances.
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Story papers, weekly eight-page tabloids, covered much the same ground, but
often combined material and themes to appeal to the whole family. The chief
among them had national circulations greater than any other newspaper or
magazine, some reaching 400,000 copies sold per issue. Unlike the dime novels,
which generally confine illustration to the cover, the story papers integrate
text and illustration (in the form of wood engravings)  throughout.

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