Synopses & Reviews
These are the adventures of the Rover boys, Dick, Tom, and Sam Rover, the three sons of Anderson Rover, a geological expert and rich mine owner and who is missing in Africa. They had been living with their Uncle, Randolph Rover, who had decided they needed the discipline and experience of living and learning in a military academy, Putnam Hall. * * * * In The Rover Boys on the Great Lakes the three boys go on a pleasure tour and, while on Lake Erie, fall in with an old enemy, who concocts a scheme for kidnapping Dick, who had fallen overboard from his yacht in a storm. His brothers fear he is dead, while their enemy plots to use Dick as a bargaining chip in obtaining the deed to a gold mine in the West. The three brothers are only re-united when Tom and Sam are also captured They try to escape, but only one reaches safety to call upon the authorities for help. Many more adventures follow as the captives try to escape, and their brother tries to find them on the Great Lakes. * * * * The Rover Boys in the Mountains relates the stirring adventures of the three Rover boys in the Adirondacks, whither they had gone to solve the mystery of a certain brass-lined money casket found by them on an island in Lake Huron. Completely by accident they run into their persistent enemy, Dan Baxter, who is also searching for the treasure using a map he discovered on the same island Facing bears and wolves in the snowstorms of New York's Adirondack mountains while fending off Dan Baxter is a thrilling adventure for the boys as they search for treasure. * * * * The Rover Boys on the Great Lakes and The Rover Boys in the Mountains were published in 1901 and 1902, respectively, and the original eight illustrations are included. * * * * Check out the other children's and juvenile books published by Flying Chipmunk Publishing at www.FlyingChipmunkPublishing.com