The Edward T. LeBlanc Memorial Dime Novel Bibliography

Item - The Missed Fortunes

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(source: NIU Libraries)
Online Full Text: Northern Illinois University
Series: Good News v. 15 no. 366 — pages 13-14
Subject / Tag: Sketch
Part of: Good News, v. 15, no. 366, May 8, 1897 (Issue)
Date: May 8, 1897
First Sentence: Every time a fresh silver, gold, or diamond-bearing district is discovered, scores, and in some cases hundreds, of people who are on the pot at the time of the find somehow or other manage to let slip through their fingers the immense fortunes that actually fall within their grasp.
Last Sentence: By the time the camp was in full blast he found himself worth nothing, and now he says of himself that his old friends pass him by with a sneer.

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