The Cave of Gold

About this eBook

Author

McNeil, Everett, 1862-1929

Title

The Cave of Gold A Tale of California in '49

Credits

E-text prepared by the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net/) from material generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries ( www.archive.org/details/americana)

Language

English

LoC Class

PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres

Subject

California -- Gold discoveries -- Juvenile fiction

Category

Text

eBook-No.

20126

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20126

Release Date

December 17, 2006

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.E-text prepared by the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( http://www.pgdp.net/ ) from material generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries ( http://www.archive.org/details/americana ) — THE CAVE OF GOLD — A TALE OF CALIFORNIA IN '49
2. 2.BY EVERETT McNEIL — AUTHOR OF "FIGHTING WITH FREMONT," "IN TEXAS WITH DAVY CROCKETT," "WITH KIT CARSON IN THE ROCKIES," ETC. — NEW YORK E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY 681 Fifth Ave. — First Printing, January, 1911 Second Printing, August. 1919 Third Printing, June, 1926 Printed in the U.S.A . — TO THE DESCENDANTS YOUNG OR OLD OF THE HARDY FORTY-NINERS THIS STORY OF THE EXCITING DAYS OF THE DISCOVERY OF GOLD IN CALIFORNIA IS HOPEFULLY DEDICATED — "YOU LIE!" AND THE HARD FIST LANDED SQUARELY ON THE MAN'S CHIN.
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.FOREWORD
5. 5.ILLUSTRATIONS
6. 6.The Cave of Gold
7. 7.CHAPTER I — EL FEROZ
8. 8.CHAPTER II — DEATH OF THE MINER
9. 9.CHAPTER III — THE SKIN MAP — THE SKIN MAP.
10. 10.CHAPTER IV — AT THE CONROYAL RANCHO
11. 11.CHAPTER V — OFF FOR THE GOLD-MINES — "YOU CAN TURN YOUR HORSES AROUND AND RIDE BACK THE WAY YOU CAME."
12. 12.CHAPTER VI — THE SIGN OF THE TWO RED THUMBS
13. 13.CHAPTER VII — CAUGHT IN THE FLOOD
14. 14.CHAPTER VIII — ACCUSED OF MURDER — THE BEST AND THE CHEAPEST PLACE TO BUY YOUR OUTFITS — A FEW OF TO-DAY'S SPECIAL BARGAINS THAT CANT BE BEAT ANYWHERE IN THE CITY
15. 15.CHAPTER IX — THE TESTIMONY OF BILL UGGER
16. 16.CHAPTER X — THE MISSING BUTTON
17. 17.CHAPTER XI — AN UNEXPECTED WITNESS
18. 18.CHAPTER XII — HAMMER JONES
19. 19.CHAPTER XIII — EXPLANATIONS
20. 20.CHAPTER XIV — THE LUCK OF DICKSON — "IS THERE ANY! JUST LOOK THERE! AND THERE! AND THERE!"
21. 21.CHAPTER XV — AROUND THE SUPPER TABLE
22. 22.CHAPTER XVI — UNEXPECTED COMPANY
23. 23.CHAPTER XVII — POCKFACE AGAIN
24. 24.CHAPTER XVIII — STORY OF THE GREAT DISCOVERY
25. 25.CHAPTER XIX — SOME EXCITING MOMENTS — BUD BENT AND STRETCHED HIS FREE HAND DOWN TO MARSHALL.
26. 26.CHAPTER XX — ROBBED
27. 27.CHAPTER XXI — PEDRO
28. 28.CHAPTER XXII — THE MYSTERY OF THE TENT
29. 29.CHAPTER XXIII — ON THE SHORE OF GOOSE NECK LAKE
30. 30.CHAPTER XXIV — IN LOT'S CANYON
31. 31.CHAPTER XXV — THE CAVE OF GOLD — "IT IS GOLD! IT IS GOLD! AND ENOUGH OF IT TO MAKE US ALL RICH BEYOND OUR FONDEST DREAMS."
32. 32.CHAPTER XXVI — THE CATASTROPHE
33. 33.CHAPTER XXVII — HOME

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