02734cam a22003253u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003701000130007804000110009104100170010205000070011910000490012624500220017526400510019730000470024833600260029533700260032133800360034750000310038350801880041452015950060253400610219765300370225885600510229585600430234699900190238977959UtSlPG20260610134815.0mcr n260607r20261898utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  a98002172  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aGwinn, D. Howardq(David Howard),d1857-193814aThe gold of Ophir 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2026-02-16  aHendrik Kaiber, Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)  a"The gold of Ophir" by D. Howard Gwinn is a novel written in the late 19th century. It reads as a frontier adventure that marries gritty Colorado mining-camp realism to treasure-hunt lore with hints of biblical legend and a lost civilization. The story centers on Chicago-bred Thomas Hardman, Jr., whose love and pride drive him West, and the seasoned prospector Abner Callaway, as they gamble everything on a great strike in the Gunnison country.

The opening of the novel follows Hardman from a privileged but penniless Chicago youth—his romance with wealthy Lena Upton blocked by her parents—into the explosive chaos of Leadville’s boom. He boards in a rough camp, befriends the guileless old prospector Abner Callaway, and inspects their faltering Little Pittsburg claim while taking a clerkship in an assay office. Alongside vivid scenes of saloons and stampedes, two sharp portraits of “experts” unfold: Captain De Vere, who quietly recognizes value in a spurned white clay and flips the revived mine for a fortune, and Jim Mitchel, a mining shark who baits a cautious doctor into a ruinous deal. After selling his own shares for a modest sum, Hardman stakes Callaway’s solo prospecting push. Weeks later, a rancher named Riley Cox arrives with word that Callaway has struck it rich, prompting Hardman’s swift, secret ride into the Gunnison. He finds Abner with coarse gold in hand, hears the tale of tracking the parent ledge through brutal country, and the partners settle in to build a stout cabin and begin serious work. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cNew York: F. Tennyson Neely, 1898  aAmerican fiction -- 19th century4 uhttps://hdl.handle.net/2027/osu.3243506209462840uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77959  c118679d118679