Underground Rivers - University of New Mexico

Chapter 19 -- The Stratemeyer Boys Club Serials
The underground stream emerged at the very base of the mountain, and on both sides were
level stretches of swamps, covered with rushes and other tropical growths. Swimming for the
nearest bank, I drew myself up and fell on my breast, too worn out to stand.
Capt. James Carson
We always know where this pseudo-officer's Saddle Boys are saddling up.
The Saddle Boys of the Rockies (1913)
The Saddle Boys in the Grand Canyon (1913)
The Saddle Boys on the Plains (1913)
The Saddle Boys at Circle Ranch (1913)
The Saddle Boys on Mexican Trails (1915)
From The Saddle Boys of the Rockies, or Lost on Thunder Mountain,
Frank went on, "but if that flood just happened to break
loose while we were between those high walls we'd have
an experience that would be fierce, let me tell you!"
"But then, it may not come for hours yet?" remonstrated
the Kentucky boy, who was anxious to be once again in
the saddle, and leaving the haunted mountain well in the
rear.
"Oh! for that matter, it may not come at all," Frank went
on.
"Although Smith did say he really believed that this was
going to finish the old geyser, which he believed empties
into one of those queer underground rivers we know are
to be found all through the Southwest. And Smith ought
to know something about it, for he's been watching this
business a whole year now, from close quarters."
"Good gracious! Do you mean that the old geyser has
turned into a river, and will keep on running like this right
along?" cried the other.
"Looks that way to me," Frank replied. "It is a great big siphon, and once started, the water that
has for centuries been wasting in some underground stream is now flowing down this canyon.
Perhaps long ago it did this same thing, till some upheaval -- an earthquake it might have been
-- turned things around."
We've also the syndicate's Captain Quincy Allen, but in none of this officer's eight Outdoor
Chums adventures do the chums stumble upon an underground river.
Franklin W. Dixon
Stratemeyer's strict rules for his publications required that the youthful heroes remain youthful.
Franklin W. Dixon's -- Hardy Boys series remains in perpetual publication, 190 and counting, the
boys still at their 1926 age. Scores of authors can claim to be Dixon.
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