The Go Ahead Boys and Simon's Mine

Four boys, a desert skeleton, and a dead man's diary. That's how The Go Ahead Boys stumble into one of the most tantalizing mysteries the old West has to offer. Fred Button, John Clemens, Grant, and George Washington Sanders discover the remains of prospector Simon Moultrie in the sun-bleached badlands, along with his journal and a handful of cryptic clues hinting at a mine so rich it could make a man rich beyond measure. The diary promises treasure, but it also promises danger: Simon didn't die of old age or misfortune. Something, or someone, ended his quest. <br><br>What follows is old-fashioned adventure at its most bracing. The boys must read between the lines of a dead man's riddles, outwit rustlers and claim jumpers who also scent the prize, and survive a landscape that offers no mercy to the unprepared. Kay writes with the punchy confidence of a storyteller who knows exactly what his young readers want: action, friendship, and the electric possibility that the next ridge might hold something magnificent. Nearly a century old, this tale still delivers the same thrill it gave boys in 1917: the joy of being the first to uncover what others have lost.