Frank Merriwell, Jr., in Arizona; or, Clearing a Rival's Record
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By Burt L. Standish 2 Feb, 2021
There were two of them, and they had been tramping wearily through a defile known as Bitter-root Cañon. The stage trail leading from Ophir, Arizona, to Gold Hill, followed the cañon, and the two lads had been taking this trail. The trail was whi ... Read more
There were two of them, and they had been tramping wearily through a defile known as Bitter-root Cañon. The stage trail leading from Ophir, Arizona, to Gold Hill, followed the cañon, and the two lads had been taking this trail. The trail was white with dust, churned up by the wheels and hoofs that had passed over it. It wound interminably along the cañon’s bed, twisting back and forth through patches of greasewood and mesquite, now hugging one wall and now the other, and again skirting the edge of some brackish pool. A stream flowed through the cañon, although no one not familiar with such mysterious streams would have guessed it. Like a good many Arizona rivers, the water flowed under the surface, appearing only here and there where bedrock forced it upward. Less
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William George "Gilbert" Patten (October 25, 1866 – January 16, 1945) was a writer of dime novels and is best known as the author of the Frank Merriwell stories, with the pen name Burt L. Standish. ...
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