Category: Adventure

Unexplored!

"Betcher life, Old Kid!" Ace King flung himself to the ground, disclosing the fact of his new leather chaps--a contrast to Ted's overalls. Greetings followed between Ted and Senator King in the back seat, and Pedro Martinez, a black-eyed young fellow who sat a pinto pony along...

Chapters

12. CHAPTER XII

In the pass between two appalling peaks the two boys sighted the smoke of a cook-fire, and without once reflecting that they were unarmed, pan-caked down for a closer inspection...

1. CHAPTER I

"Betcher life, Old Kid!" Ace King flung himself to the ground, disclosing the fact of his new leather chaps--a contrast to Ted's overalls. Greetings followed between Ted and Sen...

2. CHAPTER II

A week later Norris and the boys arrived at the lumber camp on the Canyon rim, where they were to await Long Lester,--Ace in a piratical and plutocratic black Stetson sombrero,...

3. CHAPTER III

For one glorious fortnight they had camped beside white cascading rivers, and along the singing streams that fed them, following their windings through flower perfumed forests a...

11. CHAPTER XI

The next morning they had a good look around before deciding which way to go. On one side pointed firs in patches on the canyon walls contrasted with the snow in the ravines. Th...

10. CHAPTER X

Ted's fossil would have to wait to be exhumed. In fact, Norris told him, he could sell it as it stood, and let the purchaser do the work. Then it occurred to him to wonder if Te...

6. CHAPTER VI

The red glow of the sun on the snow-clad peaks of the main ridge had begun glinting through the smoke gloom when voices seemed to echo from within the very rock against which th...

7. CHAPTER VII

This time their choice was quickly verified by the discovery of the burros, standing patiently with their packs before the pool. (That accounted for the muddy footprints.) Skirt...

5. CHAPTER V

As sunset turned the wind down canyon, all hands made a sally down the mountain side in the hope of establishing a line of back-fire, but the ground soon became too hot for them...

9. CHAPTER IX

"Wal, durn yer hide, I'm that glad to see you I've a notion to wallop you," the old guide welcomed them. "But I'm not a-goin' to ask you a single word till you've et," and he pr...

4. CHAPTER IV

His practiced eye also detected a faint bluish haze that rose behind the ridge at the North,--a haze altogether unlike that which foretells a storm. In fact, the sun glinting fr...

8. CHAPTER VIII

"I'm glad they got in a few hours' sleep this noon," solicitized Rosa, placing homemade bread and coffee before the Ranger, then dipping up a bowl of soup. She looked fagged to...