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Title: Silver and Gold
A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp

Author: Dane Coolidge

Release Date: December 2, 2009 [eBook #30572]

Language: English

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SILVER AND GOLD

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BY THE SAME AUTHOR

THE FIGHTING FOOL:

A Tale of the Western Frontier

Cloth, 12mo. with a wrapper drawn by Edward Borein

$1.75 net

E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY

NEW YORK

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SILVER AND GOLD

A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp

by

DANE COOLIDGE

Author of "The Fighting Fool" Etc.

[Illustration]

"Gold is where you find it, and Silver in high places."
--_Miners' Saying_.

New York
E. P. Dutton & Company
681 Fifth Avenue

Copyright, 1919
By E. P. Dutton & Company
All Rights Reserved

Printed in the United States of America

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. The Ground-Hog 1
II. Big Boy 7
III. Hobo Stuff 16
IV. Cash 23
V. Mother Trigedgo 33
VI. The Oraculum 42
VII. The Eminent Buttinsky 53
VIII. The Silver Treasure 61
IX. Bible-Back Murray 72
X. Signs and Omens 81
XI. The Lady of the Sycamores 92
XII. Steel on Steel 100
XIII. Swede Luck 108
XIV. The Strike 119
XV. A Night for Love 128
XVI. A Friend 138
XVII. Broke 147
XVIII. The Hand of Fate 154
XIX. The Man-Killer 161
XX. Jumpers--and Tenors