Stewart Edward White

The Claim Jumpers


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       Stewart Edward White

      The Claim Jumpers

      A Romance

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066196998

       CHAPTER I

       JIM LESLIE WRITES A LETTER

       CHAPTER II

       THE STORY-BOOK WEST

       CHAPTER III

       BENNINGTON HUNTS FOR GOLD AND FINDS A KISS

       CHAPTER IV

       THE SUN FAIRY

       CHAPTER V

       THE SPIRIT MOUNTAIN

       CHAPTER VI

       BENNINGTON AS A MAN OF BUSINESS

       CHAPTER VII

       THE MEETING AT THE ROCK

       CHAPTER VIII

       AN ADVENTURE IN THE NIGHT

       CHAPTER IX

       THE HEAVENS OPENED

       CHAPTER X

       THE WORLD MADE YOUNG

       CHAPTER XI

       AND HE DID EAT

       CHAPTER XII

       OLD MIZZOU RESIGNS

       CHAPTER XIII

       THE SPIRES OF STONE

       CHAPTER XIV

       THE PIONEER'S PICNIC

       CHAPTER XV

       THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN

       CHAPTER XVI

       A NOON DINNER

       CHAPTER XVII

       NOBLESSE OBLIGE

       CHAPTER XVIII

       THE CLAIM JUMPERS

       CHAPTER XIX

       BENNINGTON PROVES GAME

       CHAPTER XX

       MASKS OFF

       CHAPTER XXI

       THE LAND OF VISIONS

       CHAPTER XXII

       FLOWER O' THE WORLD

       THE END

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      In a fifth-story sitting room of a New York boarding house four youths were holding a discussion. The sitting room was large and square, and in the wildest disorder, which was, however, sublimated into a certain system by an illuminated device to the effect that one should "Have a Place for Everything, and then there'll be one Place you won't have to look." Easels and artists' materials thrust back to the wall sufficiently advertised the art student, and perhaps explained the untidiness.

      Two of the occupants of the room, curled up on elevated window ledges, were emitting clouds of tobacco smoke and nursing their knees; the other two, naked to the waist, sat on a couple of ordinary bedroom mattresses deposited carefully in the vacant centre of the apartment. They were eager, alert-looking young men, well-muscled, curly of hair, and possessing in common an unabashed carriage of the head which, more plainly than any mere facial resemblance, proved them brothers. They, too, were nursing