Are you wanting something to read? Something about looking for hidden gold in Montana and involving the Hardy boys detectives. Then we have something for you.
Hope the intro wasn't too lame for you I could have gone all pseudo-intellectual on you. A veritable Jordan Peterson style word salad, that while seeming intellectual is actually nothing but bollocks. (Also I'll be getting to the Crisscross shadow in due course, you don't have to go to those guys, unless you like the trainwreck of an introduction they put up there.)
Anyway Hunting for Hidden Gold, one of the original canon and a Leslie Macfarlnae to boot, it was rewritten in the mid sixties to be more action packed, and yeah, it still holds up.
Commonalities between the two include a protracted journey to Lucky Lode / Bottom, an encounter with Timber Wolves and a cave in caused by crowbar. Apart from that, though, its two different books.
The original is best, and while there are some questionable elements in this (African american's and their depiction's mainly,) this isn't a problem.
I'll suspect I'll get comments about this, but as it only pertains to the original, they're absent entirely from the remake. But there are some black characters in the original. It's slightly spoilery but here goes, the first encounter on the train is with the porter, they find out that someone they trusted had put them on a train to Indianapolis instead of Montana. He get's the guard and it all works out.
The next encounter is different and has a bunch of guys riding to the rescue in an old Model T Ford, accusing some bad dudes of running over their chickens, they come to the Hardy's rescue. I'll not apologize for liking this, its hard to follow, though, as they all speak in ebonics. But I got the gist of it.
The remake, while not a patch on the original isn't that bad and stands on its own as a decent version.
Anyway you can read these two here and here.
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