02600cam a22003733u 4500 77180 UtSlPG 20260610134804.0 m cr n 260607r20251919utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PS Hale, Max The girl at Silver Thistle Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2025 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Release date is 2025-11-04 Mary 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) The 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.) Originally published: Elgin: The David C. Cook Publishing Co., 1919 Friendship -- Fiction Girls -- Fiction Railroad stories Deserts -- Fiction West (U.S.) -- Fiction Accident victims -- Fiction https://archive.org/details/girlatsilverthis0000maxh/page/4/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77180 117901 117901