Known as the Victor Hugo of the North, Rex Beach (1877?1949) wrote more than a dozen adventure novels. His first, The Spoilers, is based on his experiences prospecting for gold in Nome at the turn of the 20th century. Beach was also a member of the American water polo team at the 1904 Olympics.

I. The Encounter

II. The Stowaway

III. In Which Glenister Errs

IV. The Killing

V. Wherin a Man Appears

VI. And a Mine is JUmped

VII. The "Bronco Kid's" Eavesdropping

VIII. Dextry Makes a Call

IX. Sluice Rpbbers

X. The Wit of an Adventuress

XI. Whereina Writ and a Riot Fail

XII. Counterplots

XIII. In Which a Man is Possessed by a Devil

XIV. A Midnight Messenger

XV. Vigilantes

XVI. In Which the Truth Begins to Bare Itself

XVII. The Drip of Water in the Dark

XVIII. Wherein a Trap is Baited

XIX. Dynamite

XX. In Which Three go to the Sign of the Sled and But Two Return

XXI. The Hammer-Lock

XXII. The Promise of Dreams