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Title: Elam Storm, The Wolfer
The Lost Nugget

Author: Harry Castlemon

Release Date: November 8, 2009 [EBook #30428]

Language: English

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ELAM STORM, THE WOLFER

OR

THE LOST NUGGET

BY HARRY CASTLEMON

AUTHOR OF "GUNBOAT SERIES," "FOREST AND STREAM SERIES,"
"WAR SERIES," ETC., ETC.

PHILADELPHIA
HENRY T. COATES & CO.

Copyright, 1895,
BY PORTER & COATES.

[Illustration: THE RED GHOST.]

CONTENTS.

I. SOMETHING ABOUT THE NUGGET

II. TOM MASON AGAIN

III. TOM BEGINS HIS WANDERINGS

IV. THE WRONG BOAT

V. TOM'S LUCK

VI. TOM ADMIRES THE COWBOYS

VII. A TEMPERANCE LECTURE

VIII. A HOME RANCH

IX. LOST IN THE MOUNTAINS

X. THE CAMP OF ELAM, THE WOLFER

XI. UNWELCOME VISITORS

XII. TOM FINDS SOMETHING

XIII. ELAM INTERVIEWS THE MAJOR

XIV. ELAM UNDER FIRE

XV. UNCLE EZRA PUTS HIS FOOT DOWN

XVI. A NEW EXPEDITION

XVII. THE NUGGET IS FOUND

XVIII. CONCLUSION

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

THE RED GHOST.

TOM'S NEW ACQUAINTANCE.

TOM IN HIDING.

ELAM'S FIGHT WITH THE CHEYENNES.

ELAM STORM, THE WOLFER;

OR,

THE LOST NUGGET.

CHAPTER I.

SOMETHING ABOUT THE NUGGET.

"Yes, sir; it's just like I tell you. Every coyote on this here ranch,
mean and sneaking as he is, is worth forty dollars to the man who can
catch him."

"Then what is the reason Carlos and I can't make some money this
winter?"

"You mout, and then again you moutn't. It aint everybody who can coax
one of them smart prowlers to stick his foot in a trap. If that was the
case, my neighbors would have had more sheep, and Elam Storm would be
worth a bushel of dollars."

"And you