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Title: The Frontier Boys in the Grand Canyon
A Search for Treasure

Author: Wyn Roosevelt

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Language: English

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THE FRONTIER BOYS IN THE GRAND CANYON

Or, A Search For Treasure

by

CAPT. WYN ROOSEVELT

The Arthur Westbrook Company
Cleveland, Ohio, U. S. A.

Copyright, 1908
By Chatterton, Peck & Company

Printed in United States of America

CONTENTS

I. A RACE

II. AFTER ANTELOPE

III. THE SURPRISE

IV. THE CHASE

V. ON GUARD

VI. WITHIN THE FORT

VII. THE CAPTAIN'S RECORD

VIII. THE CAPTAIN'S SCHEME

IX. A MOUNTAIN FIRE

X. THE SEARCH

XI. THE CAPTAIN DEPARTS

XII. THE MESA VILLAGE

XIII. TWO HONORS

XIV. A NIGHT ON THE MESA

XV. THE STRANGE COUNTRY

XVI. THE RIVER

XVII. BEGINNING THE BOAT

XVIII. THE BUILDING OF THE BOAT

XIX. WE START

XX. OUR FIRST DAY

XXI. A RIVER AMBUSH

XXII. THE ATTACK

XXIII. A CLOSE CALL

XXIV. THE COLORADO RIVER

XXV. A VISITOR

XXVI. JUAREZ BRINGS US NEWS

XXVII. THE CLIFF VILLAGE

XXVIII. THE FACE IN THE ROCK

XXIX. A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE

XXX. THE GREAT GORGE--THE END

FRONTIER BOYS IN THE GRAND CANYON

CHAPTER I

A RACE

"Your cayuse is quiet as a lamb now, isn't he, Jo," inquired Jim.

"He ought to be by this time," I replied. "You wouldn't expect him to
buck all the way through New Mexico, I hope."

"It's funny how he began to act up," remarked Tom, "just as soon as we
got out of Colorado."

"Maybe he doesn't like getting away from the country of his own tribe,"
I said; "He's a regular little Injun I can tell you that."

"I ca