Beadle's Pocket Library No. 267

# Giant George's Revenge; or, The Boys of "Slip-up Mine"

This pulp serial by "Buckskin Sam" (Maj. Sam S. Hall) depicts life in Sardine-box City, a small Arizona mining town built on discovered quartz lodes. The narrative opens with the arrival of a sinister stranger in black at Hank Holbrook's "Nugget" saloon. Hank relates the town's founding: he and his wife "Marm" Holbrook arrived from Texas with supplies, their wagon wrecked when startled miners mistook Marm's scream for an Apache attack. The grateful miners established the settlement around the Holbrooks' provision store. Marm, the first woman in the community, is revered by miners. The town takes its name from sardines—the last food the starving original prospectors were eating when the Holbrooks arrived. The stranger's true intentions and connection to the titular "Giant George" remain unrevealed as the narrative fragment ends.