The Sinbad Mines

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Excerpt from The Sinbad Mines: A Tale of the Rockies Believing that earnest effort and honest motives are generally rewarded, and that pure thoughts and a fixed purpose stimulate their possessor with strength to accomplish task, which to others would be unattainable, I have endeavored to impress upon the mind of the reader, in the following pages, the importance of having a definite aim in life, worthy of being followed with an intensity which shall admit of nothing less than its perfect accomplishment, a purpose which cannot be swerved by temptation, discouraged by opposition or apparent impossibilities. Believing that an honest life is "worth the living, " and that he who succeeds in elevating his fellow man shall reap unto himself, not only happiness, but honor and riches, and that he truly lives most who experiences the greatest vicissitudes, endures the severest trials and surmounts the most obstacles, maintaining the while "a conscience void of offense toward God and man, " I have endeavored, in the following pages, to stimulate the desire for such a life by worthy example. The pen-pictures are true to nature, most of them having been noted by the author during his quite extensive travels, extending through many years, and over several countries, many of the incidents related being personal reminiscences, while the descriptions of scenery and frontier life are portrayals of times and customs which are fast fading from even the wildest parts of the Rockies. All of the poems, with the exception of two, for which due credit is given, were written expressly for this book by the author. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.