The Haunted Mine

by Harry Castlemon

Julian Gray bought a package at the express office because he thought it contained something valuable. It had ownership papers for a mine in Colorado, but Julian and Jack Shelden, his chum, lived in St Louis.

The boys face many obstacles and challenges in their quest to find the mine, its owner, and the source of all the tales about the mine being haunted. A rollicking good story full of virtue and good examples for children to follow.

122 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1902

About the author

Charles Austin Fosdick (September 6, 1842 - August 22, 1915), better known by his nom de plume Harry Castlemon, was a prolific writer of juvenile stories and novels, intended mainly for boys. He was born in Randolph, New York, and received a high school diploma from Central High School in Buffalo, New York. He served in the Union Navy from 1862 to 1865, during the American Civil War, acting as the receiver and superintendent of coal for the Mississippi River Squadron. Fosdick had begun to write as a teenager, and drew on his experiences serving in the Navy in such early novels as Frank on a Gunboat (1864) and Frank on the Lower Mississippi (1867). He soon became the most-read author for boys in the post-Civil War era, the golden age of children's literature.

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