Dave Porter in the Gold Fields Or, the Search for the Landslide Mine

Dave Porter #10

by Edward Stratemeyer

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212 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1914

About the author

Edward Stratemeyer (1862-1930) was an American publisher and writer of children's fiction. He was one of the most prolific writers in the world, producing in excess of 1,300 books himself, selling in excess of 500 million copies. He also created many well-known fictional book series for juveniles, including The Rover Boys, The Bobbsey Twins, Tom Swift, The Hardy Boys, and Nancy Drew series, many of which sold millions of copies and are still in publication today.
In the early 1880s he began writing shorts after the style of Horatio Alger under several pseudonyms, mainly using the pen names "Arthur M. Winfield" "Allen Chapman", and "Capt. Ralph Bonehill."
Stratemeyer formed the Stratemeyer Literary Syndicate in 1905 and hired journalists to write stories based on his ideas. He paid them a flat rate for each book and kept the copyrights to the novels.

Reviews

[Angie Thompson]

Not particularly bad, but nothing to make it stand out from the crowd. Lost quite a bit of time in preliminaries--re-introducing old friends and old enemies who I didn't know from beforehand--so that may be part of it. Speaking of preliminaries, I had a bit of hope that possibly the prologue that recounted all of our hero's previous adventures would substitute for the usual recounting in the second chapter, but nope. XS Oh, well... Also, I was a bit disconcerted with the way most of the villains died in the end. Not typical of this type of story in my experience.

Content--threats and a bit of gunplay; slight mention of blood and injuries; deaths of the villains in a landslide; some stereotyped dialogue (but not limited to minority characters)