Casey and Kiley’s Gold Rush Adventure

By Mike Keenan

Brother and sister, Casey and Kiley, go back in time again with their alien friend Tuttle. In this adventure, they travel to Weaverville, a famous mining town in Northern California, during the 1850s. The Gold Rush era comes alive as the children encounter wild animals, stagecoach robbers, miners, kidnappers, and something dangerous protecting a mine.

Casey and Kiley work together with two pioneer girls, the Sheriff, his deputies, and a grizzled fur trapper to help find a missing young boy who the Weaverville townspeople say was taken by Bigfoot.

Can they find him?

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jun 27, 2023
• ISBN: 9798823010573

Mike Keenan

Mike Keenan is a loving father who writes stories to entertain his family.

Book preview

CASEY and KILEY’S

Gold Rush Adventure

Mike Keenan

37470.jpg

AuthorHouse™

1663 Liberty Drive

Bloomington, IN 47403

www.authorhouse.com

Phone: [phone]

© 2023 Mike Keenan. All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or

transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

Published by AuthorHouse  06/27/2023

ISBN: 979-8-8230-1056-6 (sc)

ISBN: 979-8-8230-1057-3 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2023911457

Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Getty Images are models,

and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

Certain stock imagery © Getty Images.

Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in

this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views

expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the

views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

For Judy whose love of Trinity County

inspired this story.

Chapter 1

A young girl and her older brother sat at a weather-beaten picnic table bolted to a wooden dock that stretched out over the clear water of Lewiston Lake. The two children sat across from their stepmother with a view of the lake. It was a cool autumn afternoon. They could smell the fresh scent of pine from the thousands of giant trees that surrounded the lake. Hundreds of ducks swam lazily on the calm surface of the water. Their quacking carried in the still air.

Okay, said their stepmother, explain this to me again.

The young girl glanced over at her brother. Again? she asked, looking exasperated.

Yes, Kiley, again, she answered. This is still hard for me to believe.

All right, I’ll start with Tuttle.

Hold on, said their stepmother putting her hand up. I think I understand Tuttle. He is a robot that looks like a bird. However, he is actually an alien whose original body no longer exists. His brain is inside a robot body that was built to look like he did when he was alive. It was placed there hundreds of years ago by the Monitors after his planet was destroyed.

Yes, Judy, that’s right, said Kiley. He was from a planet of birds.

A planet of birds? questioned their stepmother.

Her brother Casey looked over at his sister. She nodded her head.

Tuttle’s planet was a civilization of beings that looked similar to our birds, explained Casey. There were many types of birds that lived together in harmony. Their planet was covered with water. Trees and vegetation were plentiful, which provided the food and shelter they needed. It was warmed by a red sun. Something caused the planet to leave its orbit and move closer to the sun. As the planet moved closer, the sun began to dry up the water and kill the plant life. The Monitors discovered the problem but could not prevent the planet from continuing to get closer to the sun. They offered the beings an opportunity to leave the planet and join them. Only a few species of birds went with the Monitors. Tuttle was one of them.

What happened to the planet? asked Judy.

Sadly, it was destroyed. It eventually crashed into the sun, said Casey. Tuttle showed us pictures. It was a beautiful planet.

That is very sad, said their stepmother.

It is, said Casey. Kiley nodded sympathetically.

So now Tuttle is an Observer for the Monitors, Judy continued. The Monitors are highly intelligent aliens that watch over and protect the Universe. Observers, like Tuttle, are sent to planets throughout the universe where the Monitors want to gather information.

Correct, said Kiley.

Got it, said Judy. Now what happens with the information the Observers collect for the Monitors?

"The Monitors study the information to determine if action needs to be taken to protect a planet and its inhabitants or to prevent a planet and its beings from destroying other planets or beings. If they predict a threat, the Monitors send the Peacekeepers. The Peacekeepers are alien warriors that step in