SYNOPSIS

In a San Francisco auction, Bret and Bart Maverick buy a shipwreck believed to hold an unknown cargo worth a fortune. But the only way to discover what it is, or even its true value, is to sail halfway across the Pacific and salvage the wreck.

ENCYCLOPEDIA MAVERICANA

ace • aft • Barbary Coast • Beelzebub, John • Bellairs, Thomas • Braus, Jerome • Bureau of Statistics • California • California Beer • call • Campbell • Carthew, Paul • China • close-hauling • Commission, the • Craven, Jamie • Currency Lass, the • cutter • Dickson, James • Dungan Revolt • Dutch East Indies • Eagle Saloon • flush • Flying Scud, the • Goddedaal, Elias • guinea • Hanson • Higgins, Matthew • hole card • Hotel Bossert • hotel clerk • inside straight • IOU • jib • jolly boat • jolly roger • loan shark • Longhurst • man-of-war • Markham •  Maverick, Bart • Maverick, Bret • Maverick, "Pappy" Beauregard • Merchison • Midway Island • Nares, Captain • narrows • New Zealand • Norah Creina, the • opium • Orient • Pacific Ocean • pair • poker • pot • raise • remittance man • Ring, the • Rocky Mountains • San Francisco • scuttlebutt • sea sickness • Squarerigger Hotel • Tempest, H.M.S. • whipsaw • Wicks, Captain • Willimen • wrecker

Listings in italics are not specifically mentioned by name in the story, but are inferred through other contextual references.

FURTHER READING

The Wrecker; Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, — Charles Scrtibner's Sons; 1892