Front matter
Reading edition
Chicago: Forbes & Company
1915
Sons of the rugged, rock-ribbed hills,
Far from the gaudy show
Of Fashion’s world-its shams and frills
Brothers of rain and snow:
Kith of the crags and the forest pines,
Kin of the herd and flock;
Wise in the lore of Nature signs
Writ in the grass and rock.
Beings of lithe and lusty limb,
Breathing the broad, new life,
Chanting the forest’s primal hymn
Free from the world’s crude strife.
Your witching lure my being thrills,
O rugged sons! O rugged hills!
DEDICATED
TO
THE MEMORY OF MY FATHER
REVEREND STEPHEN LAFAYETTE EMERSON
(The Flockmaster of this story)
CONTENTS
THE TREASURE OF HIDDEN VALLEY
CHAPTER I—AT THE PARTING OF THE WAYS
CHAPTER II—A MESSAGE FROM THE GRAVE
CHAPTER III—FINANCIAL WOLVES
CHAPTER IV.—THE COLLEGE WIDOW
CHAPTER V.—WESTWARD HO!
CHAPTER VI.—RODERICK MEETS JIM RANKIN
CHAPTER VII—GETTING ACQUAINTED
CHAPTER VIII.—A PHILOSOPHER AMONG THE MOUNTAINS
CHAPTER IX—THE HIDDEN VALLEY
CHAPTER X.—THE FAIR RIDER OF THE RANGE
CHAPTER XI.—WINTER PASSES
CHAPTER XII—THE MAJOR’S FIND
CHAPTER XIV.—THE EVENING PARTY
CHAPTER XV.—BRONCHO-BUSTING
CHAPTER XVI.—THE MYSTERIOUS TOILERS OF THE NIGHT
CHAPTER XVII—A TROUT FISHING EPISODE
CHAPTER XVIII.—A COUNTRY FAIR ON THE FRONTIER
CHAPTER XIX.—A LETTER FROM THE COLLEGE WIDOW
CHAPTER XX.—THE STORE OF GOLD
CHAPTER XXI.—A WARNING
CHAPTER XXII.—THE TRAGEDY AT JACK CREEK
CHAPTER XXIII.—THE FIGHT ON THE ROAD
CHAPTER XXIV—SUMMER DAYS
CHAPTER XXV.—RUNNING FOR STATE SENATOR
CHAPTER XXVI.—UNEXPECTED POLITICAL HARMONY
CHAPTER XXVII.—THE UPLIFTING OF HUMANITY
CHAPTER XXVIII.—JUSTICE FOR THE WORKERS
CHAPTER XXIX.—SLEIGH BELLS
CHAPTER XXX.—WHITLEY ADAMS BLOWS IN
CHAPTER XXXI.—RODERICK’S DISCOVERY
CHAPTER XXXII.—STAKING THE CLAIMS
CHAPTER XXXIII—THE SNOW SLIDE
CHAPTER XXXIV—THE PASSING OF GRANT JONES
CHAPTER XXXV.—A CALL TO SAN FRANCISCO
CHAPTER XXXVI—IN THE CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS
CHAPTER XXXVII—RODERICK RESCUES GAIL
CHAPTER XXXVIII—THE SEARCH FOR RODERICK
CHAPTER XXXIX—REUNIONS
CHAPTER XL—BUELL HAMPTON’S GOOD-BY
CHAPTER XLI.—-UNDER THE BIG PINE
AFTERWORD