SANDY STEELE ADVENTURES
Black Treasure
Danger at Mormon Crossing
Stormy Voyage
Fire at Red Lake
Secret Mission to Alaska
Troubled Waters
Sandy Steele Adventures
BLACK TREASURE
BY ROGER BARLOW
SIMON AND SCHUSTER
New York, 1959
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CONTENTS
- CHAPTER PAGE
- 1 The Man in Blue Jeans 7
- 2 Kit Carson Country 17
- 3 A “Poor Boy” Outfit 33
- 4 Learning the Ropes 46
- 5 A Light in the Window Rock 61
- 6 Cliff Dweller Country 75
- 7 Back of Beyond 90
- 8 Cavanaugh Shows His Colors 103
- 9 Fighting Fire with Fire 116
- 10 Pepper Makes a Play 128
- 11 Serendipity 144
- 12 Cavanaugh Makes a Mistake 154
- 13 Think Like a Dog 165
- 14 Showdown 177
- 15 The Fourth Touchdown 184
CHAPTER ONE
The Man in Blue Jeans
High jinks were in order as the Regional ScienceFair drew to a close in the big auditorium atPoplar City, California. A board of judges hadselected prize-winning exhibits entered by high-schoolstudents from Valley View, Poplar City andother nearby communities. Now the winners wereblowing off steam while teachers who had supervisedthe fair sat in quiet corners and fannedthemselves wearily.
“Step right up, ladies and gentlemen,” PepperMarch whooped like a circus barker as he struttedin front of his First Prize winner, a glitteringmaze of electronic equipment. “Broadcast yourvoice over my beam of light. The