Dave Porter In The Gold Fields (Illustrated): The Search For The Landslide Mine

by Edward Stratemeyer, Walter Rogers (Illustrator)

Overview

Published by Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, in 1914, this is an engrossing story about a popular and daring hero. This is one of those spell-binders that the author knows how to write, luring the reader on from one exciting incident to another without cessation. Here, the famous young adventurer tries to hunt up a Montana gold mine that had been lost in a landslide, the mine having been willed to the mother of one of Dave's chums. Dave gets up the expedition, and they go to the Rockies where enough attempts are made to wreck the expedition to discourage the average boy. But not so this young globe-trotter, who does not know the meaning of fear, whether driving a skidding automobile in thunder and lightning storm or shooting a mountain lion. There are some nice girls in the story too, which shows that Dave is growing-up. The dialogue is capital, with enough up-to-date slang to show that the boys are alive to everything modern (The Bookseller, Newsdealer and Stationer, September 15, 1914)

Mr. Stratemeyer has seldom introduced a more popular hero than Dave Porter He is a typical boy, manly, brave, and always ready for a good time if it can be obtained in an honorable way. (Wisconsin Milwaukee Wisc.)
Edward Stratemeyer's Dave Porter has become exceedingly popular. (Boston Globe.)
Dave and his friends are nice, manly chaps. (Times Democrat New Orleans)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781987022964
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	01/19/2019
Series:	Classic Fiction for Young Adults , #182
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.63(d)

About the Author

Stratemeyer wrote more than 1,300 books himself, selling over 500 million copies. In addition to 10 Dave Porter books, Stratemeyer wrote seven series with mostly a military nature. He also created Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, The Rover Boys, The Dana Boys, Bomba the Jungle Boy, and Tom Swift. He wrote under seven pen names and employed a number of ghost writers for whom he wrote plot outlines. The "Stratemeyer Syndicate" was a large organization and controlled a number of publishers.