SANDY STEELE ADVENTURES
Black Treasure
Danger at Mormon Crossing
Stormy Voyage
Fire at Red Lake
Secret Mission to Alaska
Troubled Waters
Sandy Steele Adventures
DANGER AT
MORMON CROSSING
BY ROGER BARLOW
SIMON AND SCHUSTER
New York, 1959
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CONTENTS
- CHAPTER PAGE
- 1 The Big Cats 7
- 2 White Water 21
- 3 Dog Leg Falls 34
- 4 Eagle Plume 43
- 5 Sighting In 55
- 6 Joe’s Story 68
- 7 Cutthroats 78
- 8 A Perfect Cast 88
- 9 Smoke on the Horizon 96
- 10 Lion Country 106
- 11 Hunting Talk 116
- 12 Rockslide 126
- 13 The Hidden Cave 138
- 14 Yellow Fury 147
- 15 Three Crows 158
- 16 Captured 167
- 17 The Secret of the Cave 175
- 18 The Story of Mormon Crossing 182
CHAPTER ONE
The Big Cats
“Why don’t you call them tonight? We’ve got toknow pretty soon.”
The speaker was Arthur Cook, a deeply tannedgiant of a man with close-cropped graying hair,whose piercing blue eyes told of a lifetime spent inopen spaces. He was talking to a boy of sixteenwho had wrapped himself around a dining-roomchair and was staring thoughtfully down at a mapon the table.
“What do you say,