Hunting for Hidden Gold

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name = Hunting for Hidden Gold
orig title = Hunting for hidden gold
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author = Franklin W. Dixon
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country = United States
language = English
series = The Hardy Boys
genre = Young adult novel Mystery novel
publisher = Grosset & Dunlap
release_date = May 1, 1928, revised 1963
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 192 pp
isbn = NA
preceded_by = The Missing Chums
followed_by = The Shore Road Mystery

"Hunting For Hidden Gold" is Volume 5 in the original The Hardy Boys novel series published by Grosset & Dunlap. The book ranks 111th on Publishers Weekly's All-Time Bestselling Children's Book List for the United States, with 1,179,533 copies sold as of 2001. [http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA186995.html] This book is one of the "Original 10", generally considered to be the best examples of the Hardy Boys, and Stratemeyer Syndicate, writing.

As with most early Hardy Boys novels written during the 1920s, this story was updated in the early 1960s. While some volumes only had minor changes, the 1928 version of this book had the plot completely rewritten in 1963.

Plot summary (revised edition)

The Hardy Boys head to Montana to find old gold near the village of Lucky Lode that two miners (Mike Onslow and Bart Dawson) both claim with different stories. Then they meet Mr.Burke who owns the general store in Lucky Lode and find out he is a spy called "Slip Gun" spying on them, and working for Big Al the villain. They also defeat Black Pepper (Big Al) and his gang. While hunting for the hidden gold the Hardy Boys spot a cave, so they head into the cave to search for clues to where the gold might be but, they run into a pack of wolves before they find any clues and have to find a way to get out of the cave. They also find Bart Dawson is Bob Dodge, the man who flew them to Montana.(He had amnesia)