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100 1 _aHale, Max
245 1 4 _aThe girl at Silver Thistle
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2025-11-04
508 _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)
520 _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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cElgin: The David C. Cook Publishing Co., 1919
653 _aFriendship -- Fiction
653 _aGirls -- Fiction
653 _aRailroad stories
653 _aDeserts -- Fiction
653 _aWest (U.S.) -- Fiction
653 _aAccident victims -- Fiction
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/girlatsilverthis0000maxh/page/4/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77180
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