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  THE GREAT PIKE'S PEAK RUSH

  OR

  TERRY IN THE NEW GOLD FIELDS

  BY EDWIN L. SABIN

  "These mountains are supposed to contain minerals, precious stones and gold and silver ore. It is but late that they have taken the name Rocky Mountains; by all the old travelers they are called the Shining Mountains, from an infinite number of crystal stones of an amazing size, with which they are covered, and which, when the sun shines full upon them, sparkle so as to be seen at a great distance."

  --_From a Geography One Hundred Years Ago._

  NEW YORK THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY PUBLISHERS

  COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY.

  "NONE OF THAT, MR. IKE CHUBBERS!" REPEATED HARRY, STOUTLYFORCING THE MUZZLE UPWARD]

  TRAIL AND DIGGIN'S PEOPLE

  OLD ACQUAINTANCES:

  TERRY RICHARDS Off to the Gold Fields MR. AND MRS. RICHARDS His Parents HARRY REVERE His Partner GEORGE STANTON A Tender-foot VIRGIE STANTON Also a Tender-foot MR. AND MRS. STANTON Their Parents SOL JUDY A "Forty-niner" PINE KNOT IKE Not so Tough After All THUNDER HORSE Bad Medicine SHEP Ready for Anything DUKE THE HALF-BUFFALO} Queer Wagon Mates JENNY THE YELLOW MULE}

  NEW ACQUAINTANCES:

  THE SICK BOY Who Shows His Gratitude PAT CASEY With a Taste for Pie LITTLE RAVEN White Man's Friend LEFT HAND Official Interpreter HORACE GREELEY New York Tribune Editor JOURNALIST RICHARDSON Boston Journal Reporter JOURNALIST VILLARD The Cincinnati Reporter GREEN RUSSELL} The Original "Boomers" JOHN GREGORY } MCGREW THE WHEEL-BARROW MAN Who "Pushed" Across

  And Certain Others of the Busy Folk That Thronged the Gulches and theYoung Denver City.

  PLACE AND TIME: The Pike's Peak Country of the Rocky Mountains, 1859.

  CONTENTS

  CHAPTER PAGE

  I. To the Mountains of Gold 1

  II. The "Pike's Peak Limited" 15

  III. Duke on a Rampage 29

  IV. The Trail Grows Lonesome 39

  V. Tough Luck for the Limited 53

  VI. Just in Time 65

  VII. Shep Does His Duty 75

  VIII. The Trail Grows Lively 91

  IX. Now Where Is the "Elephant"? 103

  X. "Forward March" to Gregory Gulch 116

  XI. "Rich at Last!" 126

  XII. Panning the "Golden Prize" 138

  XIII. Ready for Big Business, But * * * 147

  XIV. Pat Casey Helps Out 161

  XV. Horace Greeley Comes to Town 171

  XVI. Two Tenderfeet Arrive 180

  XVII. Another Call for Hustle 192

  XVIII. Never Say Die! 201

  XIX. To the Pound-a-Day 211

  XX. Millions in Sight 224

  XXI. Terry Makes a Deal 233

  XXII. The "Virginia Consolidated" 241