The Motor Boys Over the Rockies; Or, a Mystery of the Air

In 1911, when the miracle of flight still made hearts race and eyes skyward, three friends face a thief in the sky. Ned, Bob, and Jerry are planning their next adventure in the airship Comet when disaster strikes: their beloved craft is stolen from its hangar in the dead of night. The theft propels the Motor Boys into a tangled mystery involving their old nemesis Noddy Nixon and the enigmatic Jackson Bell, a figure from their past whose true intentions remain dangerously unclear. Racing against time, the boys follow clues across the Rockies, from abandoned mining camps to cliffside hideouts, until they find themselves surrounded by danger with no escape but the clouds. The prose thrums with the pure, undiluted excitement of early aviation, when boarding an airship meant courting the unknown. Young readers in 1911 discovered in these pages what every generation discovers anew: that courage, loyalty, and quick thinking can carry you through any peril. This is adventure fiction at its most exuberant, a period piece that captures the giddy optimism of an age when the sky was still the limit.