Treasure Mountain Quotes

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Treasure Mountain “There is a time when you think everything is finished, that is the beginning.” This quote pretty much sums of my book Treasure Mountain. In this book they think they have finally found the treasure but it turns out that they are just in for more clues. This story is about a man named Tell sackett and his adventures with his brother trying to find his dad to figure out what had happened to him. In the beginning of the book Tell Sackett's mom wants him to go and find out what had happened to his dad over 20 years ago when he never came home. Tell Sackett wants his brother to go with him to help him but when he goes to the town where he lived nobody seems to know where he went but they say they say him talking to this guy at the bar. While he is in the town Tell decided to stay at a hotel and while he is at the hotel he starts asking around about what people knew about his brother. He found out that they saw him and this other man about ready to shoot each other and then William who was his brother was taken away being out numbered in the fight. Before Tell went into his room he saw a shadow and heard footsteps in the room. When he walked in two men came running at him but they didn't know tell what such a good fighter and they took them both on. He holds a knife up to one of them and then asks where they took his brother and who did it. They tell him that they took him …show more content…
“He might never really do what he said but at least he had it in mind.He had somewhere to go.”
“To disbelief is easy,to scoff is simple, to have faith is harder.” My favorite part of this book was when the men found the treasure and got attacked by indians.
This book was written very well it made me not wanna stop reading. One thing is there were some things that didn't make sense. I would recommend this book to people who like western stories because it is very good and it has lots of

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