True Adventures of the Geode Kid, Part I
Robert Paul Colburn
The mining stories of the Geode Kid, with maps to
his dig sites.
Advice on how to cut and polish
geodes.
Stories of the Kid mining in Oregon, Nevada, and
Southern California in Barstow and Wiley’s Well.
The Kid experiments with some of the Berkeley
professors’ mushrooms. The trees smell
like strawberries.
The Kid get put in the pokey for
peddling rocks in Las Vegas, but hatches a plan to get out.
The Kid sneaks a bulldozer into Wiley’s
Well, with a case of dynamite and starts blowing things up.
The Kid gets lassoed by a
man on horseback for sneaking onto a ranch in Oregon. Into the slammer he
goes again. The jail walls are full of
big holes but no one wants to escape because the jail has booze!
It’s
a time of excitement. Sputnik has been
launched. Working at a gas station, the
Kid concocts a plan to make his own rocket and launch it at a competitor gas station
across the street. But
will it work?
It’s
Oregon. Everyone is digging thundereggs
and jumping each other’s claims. What’s a Kid to do?
Join in.
That rat Kops jumps the Kid’s morrisonite find and
puts a claim on it! Welcome to Oregon,
Kid.
The Kid tries the import business but runs afoul of the law in Mexico. Run for the border!
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“Secrecy is futile. The truth will be assimilated!”
Robert
Paul Colburn