Notes

1

See Whispering Sands: Stories of Gold Fever and the Western Desert by Erle Stanley Gardner, Charles G. Waugh and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. (New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1981).

2

Bob Zane does not appear in “Stone Frogs” or “Gold Blindness,” but we have felt free to use excerpts from both. The first protagonist is an early prototype of Zane, while the second clearly shares Zane’s views about civilization.

3

For collected stories, the page number refers to the appropriate page in Volumes 1 or 2. For “Stone Frogs,” the page number refers to the issue of Argosy (May 31,1930) in which the story first appeared. For “Sign of the Sun,” the page numbers refer to the issue of Argosy (June 27, 1931) in which the story first appeared.

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