These stories became known as dime novels. Dime novels helped make heroes of people like Davy Crockett and Kit Carson.

这些故事后来被称为廉价小说。廉价小说帮助戴维·克罗克特和基特·卡森等人成为英雄。

People with educations, people who had gone to school, often look down on dime novels.

有文化的人，上过学的人，往往看不起廉价小说。

Well, you could at least, in some of the cities of that time, buy these dime novels.

好吧， 至少在当时的一些城市，你可以买到这些廉价小说。

Dime novels were very popular in the 19th and 20th century – we've been talking about the Wild West.

廉价小说在 19 世纪和 20 世纪非常流行——我们一直在谈论狂野的西部。

We're also going to talk about dime novels and pulp magazines.

我们还将讨论廉价小说和通俗杂志。

This dime novel was, like most novels, part of the series.

与大多数小说一样，这部廉价小说是系列小说的一部分。

A lot of dime novels and pulp magazines used what we might call " sensationalism" – that's a tough one to say.

许多廉价小说和通俗杂志都使用了我们所谓的“轰动效应”——这很难说。

One was a desire to return to earlier, simpler times. The American West of the dime novels was fast disappearing. The area was starting to develop.

其中一个就是人们想要回到以前的简单的时光里。美国西部的廉价小说正在快速消失。这片区域也开始开发。

One of the first dime novels that was written was back in 1860 by a woman named Anne Stevens.

1860 年，一位名叫安妮·史蒂文斯 (Anne Stevens) 的女士创作了第一部廉价小说。

Dime novels became less popular by the end of the 19 century.

到 19 世纪末，廉价小说变得不那么流行了。