Dave Porter in the Gold Fields: The Search for the Landslide Mine

✍ Scribed by Stratemeyer, Edward

• Book ID: 109283973
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: en-GB
• Weight: 258 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

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DAVE PORTER IN THE GOLD FIELDS CHAPTER I the landslide mine " Roger, that sounds like a fairy tale-a real gold mine belonging to your mother lost through a landslide I " 11 So it does sound like a fairy tale, Dave; but it is absolutely true. The mine was owned by my uncle, Maurice Harrison, of Butte, Montana, and when he died he left it to my mother, who was his sister. On the day he died there was a big landslide in the mountains, where the mine was located,-and that was the end of the mine, as far as my folks were concerned." " You mean you couldn't find the mine after the landslide? " asked Dave Porter, with deep interest. "That's it," answered Roger Morr. " The opening to it was completely covered up, and so were the stakes, and several landmarks that showed where the mine was located." " But why didn't you tell of this before,

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; CHAPTER PAGE; I The Landslide Mine i; II: Dave Porter's Past ii; III Caught in a Storm 21; IV A Question of Stocks ? 31; V A Trap for Job Haskers ; VL Another Surprise ? 51; VII A Gathering of Oak Hall Boys 6l; VIII Fire and Firecrackers ? 71; IX What Nat Poole Had to Tell 8l; X Dave at Home 91; XL Overheard in the Summer-House 101; XII On the Way West Ill; xiii Dave Sees Something 121; XIV In Butte 131; XV At Abe Blower's Home 141; XVI On to Black Cat Camp ? 151; XVII Along the Mountain Trail l6l; XVIII The Stolen Horses 171; XIX The Newspaper Clew l8l; XX The Exposure 191; XXL On the Back Trail 201; XXII Dave and the Mountain Lion 211; XXIII In the Mountain Cave 221; XXIV Searching for the Landslide Mine 231; XXV Caught in a Storm 241; vi; CONTENTS; CHAPTER; xxvi xxvii xxviii xxix xxx; Prowlers in Camp; The Two Prisoners; The Lost Landslide Mine ; Another Landslide; The New Claim-Conclusion

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