DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Tom Swift and his Great Oil Gusher or The Treasure of Goby Farm" by Howard R. Garis. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Swift Construction is hired to make oil-well drilling equipment for a group of Texas wildcatters, who turn out to be more than a little shady. They have to be watched to keep them from pulling financial tricks. And there is a new rival in pursuit of Tom's girlfriend, Mary Nestor...

Reprint of the adventure novel originally published in 1912.

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Now, see here, Mr. Swift, you may think it all a sort of dream, and imagine that I don't know what I'm talking about; but I do! If you'll consent to finance this expedition to the extent of, say, ten thousand dollars, I'll practically guarantee to give you back five times that sum. "I don't know, Alec, I don't know," slowly responded the aged inventor. "I've heard those stories before, and in my experience nothing ever came of them. Buried treasure, and lost vessels filled with gold, are all well and good, but hunting for an opal mine on some little-heard-of island goes them one better." "Then you don't feel like backing me up in this matter, Mr. Swift?"

Reprint of the adventure novel originally published in 1920.