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The Spoilers

by Rex Beach (1877–1949)

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  • 6 hours to read
  • 22 chapters
  • Reading level: 6th grade

"The Spoilers" by Rex Beach is a novel published in 1906 set during the Alaska gold rush. Based on true events Beach witnessed in Nome, the story follows prospector Roy Glenister and his partner as they battle corrupt government officials who seize their valuable gold claim through fraudulent legal schemes. Caught between law and lawlessness, Glenister must fight to reclaim what's rightfully his while navigating romantic complications with two women and confronting a ruthless politician who controls the corrupt system.

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  • Historical fiction
  • Western stories
  • Gold mines and mining · Yukon River Valley (Yukon and Alaska)
  • Frontier and pioneer life · Yukon River Valley (Yukon and Alaska)
  • Yukon River Valley (Yukon and Alaska) · History · 19th century

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Chapter I

THE ENCOUNTER

Glenister gazed out over the harbor, agleam with the lights of anchored ships, then up at the crenelated mountains, black against the sky. He drank the cool air burdened with its taints of the sea, while the blood of his boyhood leaped within him.

"Oh, it's fine—fine," he murmured, "and this is my country—my country, after all, Dex. It's in my veins, this hunger for the North. I grow. I expand."

"Careful you don't bust," warned Dextry. "I've seen men get plumb drunk on mountain air. Don't expand too strong in one spot." He went back abruptly to his pipe, its villanous fumes promptly averting any danger of the air's too tonic quality.

"Gad! What a smudge!" sniffed the younger man. "You ought to be in quarantine."

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Contents

  1. Chapter I
  2. Chapter II
  3. Chapter III
  4. Chapter IV
  5. Chapter V
  6. Chapter VI
  7. Chapter VII: The "Bronco Kid's" Eavesdropping
  8. Chapter VIII
  9. Chapter IX
  10. Chapter X
  11. Chapter XI
  12. Chapter XII
  13. Chapter XIII
  14. Chapter XIV
  15. Chapter XV
  16. Chapter XVI
  17. Chapter XVII
  18. Chapter XVIII
  19. Chapter XIX
  20. Chapter XX: In Which Three Go to the Sign of the Sled and But Two Return
  21. Chapter XXI
  22. Chapter XXII

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This free edition of The Spoilers by Rex Beach comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #5076, released 2004-02-01. It is in the public domain in the United States, so you can read it here in full at no cost, on any phone, tablet or computer. Genre: Adventure, Novels, American Literature.

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