02569cam a22003613u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000140011324500310012726400510015830000470020933600260025633700260028233800360030850000310034450801950037552012980057053400730186865300260194165300210196765300210198865300230200965300270203265300320205985600730209185600430216477180UtSlPG20260610134804.0mcr n260607r20251919utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aHale, Max14aThe girl at Silver Thistle 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2025-11-04  aMary Glenn Krause, Terry Jeffress, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)  aThe girl at Silver Thistle by Max Hale is a juvenile adventure novella written in the early 20th century. Set at a remote desert pump-station on a Western railroad, it centers on a budding friendship between a station keeper’s daughter and a railroad superintendent’s daughter, and on the courage that blossoms when danger threatens.

Nevada Buckley lives with her parents at the Silver Thistle water stop in the Mohave. When Superintendent Foster’s “Special” arrives, his daughter Debue is stung by a scorpion, and Nevada’s quick, skillful care saves her; the superintendent leaves Debue to recuperate with the Buckleys for a week. The girls become fast friends amid trains, signal lamps, and desert sunsets, though a mysterious prowler unsettles Nevada. On their last evening, Debue loses her way, and in searching for her Nevada discovers three armed men plotting to rob the approaching paymaster’s car. Nevada finds Debue, and together they race to the tracks, seize a semaphore’s red lamp, and flag the “Special” before it reaches the ambush. The would‑be robbers flee, the train is safe, and a grateful Foster invites Nevada east to study with Debue, sealing their friendship and opening a new life for the desert girl. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cElgin: The David C. Cook Publishing Co., 1919  aFriendship -- Fiction  aGirls -- Fiction  aRailroad stories  aDeserts -- Fiction  aWest (U.S.) -- Fiction  aAccident victims -- Fiction4 uhttps://archive.org/details/girlatsilverthis0000maxh/page/4/mode/2up40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77180