(Gray Rocks)
Reading edition
A Story Of The Middle-West
Illustrated
By Willis George Emerson
Chicago: Laird & Lee, Publishers
1894
“Beneath yon rocky peak that hides
In fleecy clouds its snow-flecked crest;
Beneath those crimson crags abides
The fairest queen of all the West.”
CONTENTS
PREFACE.
PARTIAL LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
CHAPTER I.—VANCE GILDER.
CHAPTER II.—THE OLD MINER.
CHAPTER III.—THE BANNER FORCE.
CHAPTER IV—A SUPPER PARTY.
CHAPTER V.—AN ODD CHARACTER.
CHAPTER VI—THE TOWN BOOMER.
CHAPTER VII.—A VISIT TO WATERVILLE
CHAPTER VIII.—AT THE MINE
CHAPTER IX.—THE STAGE DRIVER.
CHAPTER X.—PROPERTY HAS GONE UP.
CHAPTER XI.—OWNER OF THE PEACOCK MINE.
CHAPTER XII—TROUT FISHING.
CHAPTER XIII.—THE STAGE RIDE.
CHAPTER XIV.—THE TOWN COMPANY’S MEETING.
CHAPTER XV.—MISS VIRGINIA BONIFIELD.
CHAPTER XVI.—THE OLD COLONEL’S DISAPPOINTMENT.
CHAPTER XVII.—An AWAKENING.
CHAPTER XVIII.—VANCE RETURNS TO WATERVILLE.
CHAPTER XIX.—THE INDIGNATION MEETING
CHAPTER XX.—THE STAGE IS ROBBED.
CHAPTER XXI.—REACHING THE 400 FOOT LEVEL.
CHAPTER XXII.—STARTING THE BOOM.
CHAPTER XXIII.—RUFUS GRIM S AMBITION.
CHAPTER XXIV.—THE GOLDEN MAUSOLEUM.
CHAPTER XXV.—CROSS-CUTTING IN THE MINE.
CHAPTER XXVI.—A STARTLING EDITORIAL.
CHAPTER XXVII.—AT LAST!