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

Author: Edward Stratemeyer

Illustrator: Walter Rogers

Release Date: December 26, 2007 [EBook #24033]

Language: English

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Dave Porter Series

DAVE PORTER IN THE GOLD FIELDS

OR, THE SEARCH FOR THE LANDSLIDE MINE

BY EDWARD STRATEMEYER

Author of "Dave Porter at Oak Hall," "The Lakeport Series,"
"Pan-American Series," "Old Glory Series," etc.

_ILLUSTRATED BY WALTER ROGERS_

BOSTON
LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO.

Published, August, 1914
COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO.
_All rights reserved_
DAVE PORTER IN THE GOLD FIELDS

Norwood Press
BERWICK AND SMITH CO.
Norwood, Mass.
U. S. A.

[Illustration: "A NUGGET! A NUGGET OF GOLD!" CRIED DAVE.]

CONTENTS

PREFACE

I. THE LANDSLIDE MINE

II. DAVE PORTER'S PAST

III. CAUGHT IN A STORM

IV. A QUESTION OF STOCKS

V. A TRAP FOR JOB HASKERS

VI. ANOTHER SURPRISE

VII. A GATHERING OF OAK HALL BOYS

VIII. FIRE AND FIRECRACKERS

IX. WHAT NAT POOLE HAD TO TELL

X. DAVE AT HOME

XI. OVERHEARD IN THE SUMMER-HOUSE

XII. ON THE WAY WEST

XIII. DAVE SEES SOMETHING

XIV. IN BUTTE

XV. AT ABE BLOWER'S HOME

XVI. ON TO BLACK CAT CAMP

XVII. ALONG THE MOUNTAIN TRAIL

XVIII. THE STOLEN HORSES

XIX. THE NEWSPAPER CLEW

XX. THE EXPOSURE

XXI. ON THE BACK TRAIL

XXII. DAVE AND THE MOUNTAIN LION

XXIII. IN THE MOUNTAIN CAVE

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