Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Dianne Nolan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Illustration: _All that morning Rob fished and Nelly stuck grasshoppers on the hook for him._ FRONTISPIECE. _See page 204._] The Beacon Hill Bookshelf Nelly's Silver Mine _A Story of Colorado Life_ By Helen Hunt Jackson With Illustrations in Color by Harriet Roosevelt Richards Boston Little, Brown, and Company 1926 _Copyright, 1878,_ BY ROBERTS BROTHERS _Copyright, 1906, 1920,_ BY WILLIAM S. JACKSON. _Copyright, 1910,_ BY LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY. _All rights reserved._ _Printed in the United States of America_ CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I CHRISTMAS-DAY IN NELLY'S NEW ENGLAND HOME 1 II A TALK ABOUT LEAVING MAYFIELD 18 III OFF FOR COLORADO 48 IV A NIGHT IN A SLEEPING-CAR 71 V FIRST GLIMPSES OF COLORADO AND A NEW HOME 96 VI LIFE AT GARLAND'S 125 VII A HUNT FOR A SILVER MINE 141 VIII THE MARCHES LEAVE GARLAND'S 156 IX WET MOUNTAIN VALLEY 187 X ROB AND NELLY GO INTO BUSINESS 208 XI HOW TO FIND A SILVER MINE 227 XII NELLY'S SILVER MINE 250 XIII "THE GOOD LUCK" 270 XIV AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE 292 XV CHANGES IN PROSPECT 311 XVI "GOOT-BY AND GOOT LUCK" 323 ILLUSTRATIONS All that morning Rob fished and Nelly stuck grasshoppers on the hook for him _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE Nelly sat on one side, with all the dolls ranged in a row against the wall 20 He would ring out such a "jodel" that the people would stop and look up amazed 132 There she saw the very place she recollected so well 256 NELLY'S SILVER MINE CHAPTER I CHRISTMAS-DAY IN NELLY'S NEW-ENGLAND HOME