Phillip Verrill Mighels (1869 1911) was an author, poet, lawyer, journalist, and playwright. He was raised in Nevada, which became the background for his western stories. The Furnace of Gold was published in 1910. The title comes from Proverbs 17: 3 The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold, but the Lord tests the heart. The story begins Now Nevada, though robed in gray and white--the gray of sagebrush and the white of snowy summits--had never yet been accounted a nun when once again the early summer aroused the ...
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Phillip Verrill Mighels (1869 1911) was an author, poet, lawyer, journalist, and playwright. He was raised in Nevada, which became the background for his western stories. The Furnace of Gold was published in 1910. The title comes from Proverbs 17: 3 The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold, but the Lord tests the heart. The story begins Now Nevada, though robed in gray and white--the gray of sagebrush and the white of snowy summits--had never yet been accounted a nun when once again the early summer aroused the passions of her being and the wild peach burst into bloom. It was out in Nauwish valley, at the desert-edge, where gold has been stored in the hungry-looking rock to lure man away from fairer pastures. There were mountains everywhere--huge, rugged mountains, erected in the igneous fury of world-making, long since calmed. Above them all the sky was almost incredibly blue--an intense ultramarine of extraordinary clearness and profundity. At the southwest limit of the valley was the one human habitation established thereabout in many miles, a roadside station where a spring of water issued from the earth. Towards this, on the narrow, side-hill road, limped a dusty red automobile. It contained three passengers, two women and a man. Of the women, one was a little German maid, rather pretty and demure, whose duty it was to enact the chaperone. The other, Beth Kent, straight from New York City, well--the wild peach was in bloom.
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Add this copy of The Furnace of Gold to cart. $8.00, good condition, Sold by nealsbooks rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Menominee, MI, UNITED STATES, published 1919 by Desmond FitzGerald, Inc..
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Marchand, J. N. Good. No Jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Pages are clean and unmarked. Cover corners and edges are lightly rubbed. Binding is tight. 402pp.
Add this copy of The Furnace of Gold to cart. $11.00, very good condition, Sold by Singing Saw Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Portland, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1910 by Desmond FitzGerald.
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Very Good. New York: Desmond Fitzgerald, 1910. 402 p. Probable first edition with no additional printings indicated. Illustrated boards with yellow lettering. Clean pages. Light wear at head and tail, small stain on ffep.
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