The Spoilers

Name: The Spoilers
Author: Rex Beach

by Rex Beach (1877–1949)

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6 hours to read
23 chapters
Reading level: 6th grade

"The Spoilers" by Rex Beach is a novel published in 1906 set during the Alaska Gold Rush. When prospector Roy Glenister and his partner return to Nome to protect their valuable gold claim, they find themselves battling corrupt government officials who are systematically seizing miners' claims through fraudulent legal maneuvers. Based on true events Beach witnessed, the story follows Glenister as he navigates dangerous political conspiracies, vigilante justice, and a complicated romance with the niece of the crooked judge orchestrating the scheme.

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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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This free edition of The Spoilers by Rex Beach comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #51840, released 2016-04-23. 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: Romance, Adventure, Novels, American Literature.

Other editions: eBook #5076 (most read).

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