The River Motor Boat Boys on the Columbia; Or, The Confession of a Photograph
by Harry Gordon
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Excerpt from The River Motor Boat Boys on the Columbia: Or the Confession of a Photograph The motor boat Rambler lay at the very summit of the Rocky Mountains. She was not in a lake, either, although there were lakes of ice not far away. She was not in motion, and there was a great silence all around her. She lay, propped upright, on a platform car, and the car, with two broken wheels, stood on a make-shift spur of track on the right-of-way of the Canadian Pacific railroad. An unusual place to find a motor boat. But listen. The Rambler was en route from the South Branch, Chicago, to the headwa...
Chapters (24)
- CHAPTER I.—CROSSING THE MOUNTAINS IN A MOTOR BOAT.
- CHAPTER II.—CAPTAIN JOE FOLLOWS A TRAIL.
- CHAPTER III.—ALEX FINDS USE FOR HIS KODAK.
- CHAPTER IV.—A NEW FACE ON THE RAMBLER.
- CHAPTER V.—WHAT TOOK PLACE ON THE TRAIN.
- CHAPTER VI.—MOURNING AN EMPTY KODAK.
- CHAPTER VII.—PIE THAT LIVED IN A GLASS HOUSE.
- CHAPTER VIII.—A WRECK AND A BABY BEAR.
- CHAPTER IX.—THE MAKING OF A CEDAR CANOE.
- CHAPTER X.—A RABBIT AND A SECRET MEETING.
- CHAPTER XI.—ALEX BECOMES A DETECTIVE.
- CHAPTER XII.—A BEAR, A FISH, AND A TREE.
- CHAPTER XIII.—A MYSTERY AND A FISH SUPPER.
- CHAPTER XIV.—A SWIFT AND PERILOUS RIDE.
- CHAPTER XV.—THE RAMBLER TAKES TO WHEELS.
- CHAPTER XVI.—TEDDY RECEIVES A CALLER.
- CHAPTER XVII.—CAPTAIN JOE TO THE RESCUE.
- CHAPTER XVIII.—CASE MAKES A HIT WITH DOUGH.
- CHAPTER XIX.—WHY THERE WAS NO VENISON.
- CHAPTER XX.—CAPTAIN JOE MAKES A DISCOVERY.
- CHAPTER XXI.—A CAMPFIRE HIGH ON THE HILLS.
- CHAPTER XXII.—THE SURGEON TURNS DETECTIVE.
- CHAPTER XXIII.—THE POLICEMAN MAKES A MISTAKE.
- CHAPTER XXIV.—MORE SURPRISES THAN ONE.
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