Helen Hunt Jackson

With Illustrations in Color by
Harriet Roosevelt Richards

Boston
Little, Brown, and Company
1926


Copyright, 1878,
By Roberts Brothers
Copyright, 1906, 1920,
By William S. Jackson.
Copyright, 1910,
By Little, Brown, and Company.



CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
I Christmas-Day in Nelly's New England Home[1]
II A Talk about Leaving Mayfield[18]
III Off for Colorado[48]
IV A Night in a Sleeping-Car[71]
V First Glimpses of Colorado and a New Home[96]
VI Life at Garland's[125]
VII A Hunt for a Silver Mine[141]
VIII The Marches Leave Garland's[156]
IX Wet Mountain Valley[187]
X Rob and Nelly Go into Business[208]
XI How to find a Silver Mine[227]
XII Nelly's Silver Mine[250]
XIII "The Good Luck"[270]
XIV An Old Acquaintance[292]
XV Changes in Prospect[311]
XVI "Goot-By and Goot Luck"[323]

ILLUSTRATIONS

All that morning Rob fished and Nelly stuck grasshoppers on
the hook for himFrontispiece
FACING PAGE
Nelly sat on one side, with all the dolls ranged in a row
against the wall[20]
He would ring out such a "jodel" that the people would stop
and look up amazed[132]
There she saw the very place she recollected so well[256]