Project Gutenberg 2015-10-19 Public domain in the USA. 65 Leckie, Robert 1920 2001 Barlow, Roger Porter, Mark Black Treasure Sandy Steele Adventures #1 Produced by Stephen Hutcheson, Dave Morgan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Black Treasure" by Roger Barlow is a children's adventure novel written in the mid-20th century. The story follows Sandy Steele and his friend Quiz Taylor, two high school students who have entered a science fair. Their invention—a geological analyzer—captures the attention of John Hall, an oil wildcat operator, leading to a summer job opportunity for the boys that involves learning about oil drilling in the Four Corners region, which includes their journey among Native American lands and cultures. The opening of the book sets the stage during the Regional Science Fair in Poplar City, California, where Sandy and Quiz feel disheartened after receiving only an honorable mention for their project, in contrast to the flashy exhibit of their rival, Pepper March. Their fortunes change when John Hall approaches them, intrigued by their work and eager to recruit them for an oil drilling operation. The narrative captures their initial excitement and trepidation as they accept the job, leading to encounters with various characters, including Native Americans and rival prospectors, setting off a summer filled with adventure and the challenges of navigating a complex adult world. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Oil fields -- Juvenile fiction Four Corners Region -- Juvenile fiction Uranium -- Juvenile fiction PZ Text Browsing: Children & Young Adult Reading Browsing: Fiction 280796 280801 2024-09-21T04:47:44.174252 2023-09-21T14:35:35.239835 text/html text/html 289687 2015-10-19T15:42:52 text/html; charset=utf-8 351793 2015-10-19T15:43:40 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 376360 2024-09-21T04:47:50.556220 application/epub+zip 386170 2024-09-21T04:47:46.088216 application/epub+zip 182086 2024-09-21T04:47:45.159203 application/epub+zip 480905 2024-09-21T04:47:53.895156 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 453187 2024-09-21T04:47:49.761219 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 249464 2022-09-22T17:19:11.181728 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 242855 242753 2024-09-21T04:47:43.190229 2023-09-21T14:35:34.287814 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 250248 2015-10-19T15:42:50 text/plain; charset=utf-8 97313 2015-10-19T15:43:40 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 243147 2015-10-19T15:43:30 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 96421 2015-10-19T15:43:40 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 20274 2024-09-21T04:47:54.028166 application/rdf+xml 27631 2024-09-21T04:47:45.256212 image/jpeg 4303 2024-09-21T04:47:45.207194 image/jpeg 351690 2024-09-21T04:47:44.204279 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog