The Golden Dream

By Ballantyne, Robert Michael

Book Id: WPLBN0000624789
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	The Golden Dream
Author:	Ballantyne, Robert Michael
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Description
Excerpt: Chapter One. Adventures in the Far West. The Cause of the Whole Affair. Ned Sinton gazed at the scene before him with indescribable amazement! He had often witnessed strange things in the course of his short though chequered life, but he had never seen anything like this. Many a dream of the most extravagant nature had surrounded his pillow with creatures of curious form and scenes of magic beauty, but never before, either by actual observation or in nightly vision, had Ned Sinton beheld a scene so wonderful as that which now lay spread out before him.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: The Golden Dream, 1 -- R.M. Ballantyne, 1 -- Chapter One. Adventures in the Far West. The Cause of the Whole Affair, 2 -- Chapter Two. Our Hero, 5 -- Chapter Three. Hopes and Fears?Mr. Shirley receives a Visit and a Wild Proposal, 9 -- Chapter Four. The End of the Beginning?Farewell to Old England, 12 -- Chapter Five. The Sea?Dangers of the Deep, and Uncertainty of Human Affairs?A Disastrous -- Night and a Bright Morning?California at last, 14 -- Chapter Six. San Francisco?An Unexpected Desertion?Captain Bunting takes a Gloomy View -- of Things in General?New Friends and New Plans?Singular Facts and Curious Fancies, 18 -- Chapter Seven. The Fate of the Roving Bess?Gambling Scenes?Mr. Sinton makes a New -- Friend?Larry O'Neil makes Money in Strange Ways?A Murder, and a Beggar's Death?Ned -- becomes a Poor Man's Heir, 25 -- Chapter Eight. Our Hero and his Friends start for the Diggings?The Captain's -- Portrait?Costumes, and Scenery, and Surprises?The Ranche by the Road?Side?Strange -- Travellers?They meet with a New Friend, and adopt him?The Hunter's Story?Larry offers to -- fight a Yankee?High Prices and Empty Purses, 33 -- Chapter Nine. A Night Ride in the Woods?The Encampment?Larry's First Attempt to dig for -- Gold?An Alarm?A Suspicious Stranger?Queer Creatures, 42 -- Chapter Ten. Game and Cookery?Arrival at the Diggings?Little Creek?Law and Order in the -- Mines?Nooning at Little Creek?Hard?up?Our Adventurers get Credit and begin Work?A -- Yankee Outwitted, 46 -- Chapter Eleven. Gold?Washing?Our Adventurers count their Gains, and are Satisfied?The -- ?R'yal Bank o' Calyforny? begins to Prosper?Frying Gold?Night Visit to the Grave of a -- Murdered Man?A Murderer Caught?The Escape and Pursuit, 53 -- Chapter Twelve. Sabbath at the Diggings?Larry O'Neil takes to Wandering, and meets with -- Adventures?An Irish Yankee discovered?Terrible Calamities befall Travellers on the -- Overland Route, 60 -- Chapter Thirteen. Kindness to Strangers in Distress?Remarks in Reference to Early -- Rising?Diggings wax Unproductive?Ned takes a Ramble, and has a Small Adventure?Plans -- Formed and Partly Developed?Remarkable Human Creatures Discovered, and still more -- Remarkable Converse held with them, 65 -- Chapter Fourteen. The New Diggings?Bright Prospects?Great Results spring from Great -- Exertions, even in California?Captain Bunting is seized with a Great Passion for Solitary -- Rambling, and has two Desperate Encounters; one with a Man, the other with a Rear, 71 -- Chapter Fifteen. Ah?wow saved from an Untimely Fate?Lynch Law Enforced?Ned Sinton -- resolves to renounce Gold?Digging for a Time, and Tom Collins seconds him, 78 -- Chapter Sixteen. Ned and Tom take to Wandering?Philosophical Speculations?A Startling -- Apparition?The Digger Indians?Water boiled in a Basket?The Gloomy Pass?The Attack by -- Robbers?The Fight?A Surprise?The Encampment, 82 -- Chapter Seventeen. A Curious and Valuable Draught?Lynch Law applied?Black Jim's -- Confession?Ned becomes a Painter, and finds the Profession Profitable as well as -- Amusing?The First Portrait, 91 -- Chapter Eighteen. Ned's New Profession pays admirably?He and Tom Wax -- Philosophical??Pat? comes for a ?Landscape of himself?Lynch Law and the Doctors?Ned's -- Sitters?A Yankee Swell receives a Gentle Rebuff, 99 -- Chapter Nineteen. The Wilderness again?A Splendid Valley?Gigantic Trees and -- Waterfalls?Tom meets with an Accident?Both meet with many Surprises?Mysteries,