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The Furnace of Gold was published in 1910. The title comes from Proverbs 17:3 The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold, but the Lord tests the heart. The story begins "Now Nevada, though robed in gray and white-the gray of sagebrush and the white of snowy summits-had never yet been accounted a nun when once again the early summer aroused the passions of her being and the wild peach burst into bloom. It was out in Nauwish valley, at the desert-edge,...
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Excerpt: "It all commenced that bright November day of the Indian rabbit drive and hunt. The motley army of the piute tribe was sweeping tremendously across a sage-brush valley of Nevada, their force two hundred braves in number. They marched abrest, some thirty yards apart, and formed a line that was more than two miles long.
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