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Marooned in Crater Lake, by Alfred Powers, c. 1916
Young Jim Turner finds himself stranded on Crater Lake’s Wizard Island alone after he misses the last boat of the season in October 1910.

He realized he couldn’t give a signal, for he had nothing to give it with nothing that could remotely be worked into a signaling device of any kind. He would simply have to wait a week until his uncle began a search, and trust that meanwhile the Cascade storms would hold off.

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Marooned in Crater Lake, by Alfred Powers, c. 1916

Young Jim Turner finds himself stranded on Crater Lake’s Wizard Island alone after he misses the last boat of the season in October 1910.

He realized he couldn’t give a signal, for he had nothing to give it with nothing that could remotely be worked into a signaling device of any kind. He would simply have to wait a week until his uncle began a search, and trust that meanwhile the Cascade storms would hold off.

Read what happens