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A rare and unique find. 'Inside I'm like new!' (though old). This is a 'Tom Quest' young-adult western adventure tale, from the "Tom Quest Adventure Stories" series as listed on the back cover. Tom Quest is the central character in a series of eight adventure novels for adolescents set in the American West and Mexico, written by Lone Ranger series author Fran Striker. Nice young reader's book. Found this review online: ""The Secret of Thunder Mountain" (#6), utilizes Gulliver's Texas ranch as a setting- a ranch that Gulliver seems to spend precious little time on. Here a cavern in a nearby peak is being utilized by ruthless killers who robbed an armored car of three million dollars in gold several years before. At Thunder Mountain, the gang has high-powered electric furnaces to melt the gold and local rocks together to form an appearance of ore which they then hope to be able to "legitimately" reprocess without suspicion. But their huge electrical generators and furnaces produce a loud static… Read More