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When first I started this series with “The Rover Boys at School,” I had no idea of extending the line beyond three or four volumes. But the second book, “The Rover Boys on the Ocean,” immediately called for a third The Rover Boys in the Jungle,” and this finished, many boys wanted to know what would happennext, and so I must needs give them “The Rover Boys Out West.” Still they were not satisfied; hence the volume now in your hands. So far we have followed the doings of Dick, Tom, and Sam at dear old Putnam Hall, with many larks and sports; then out upon the broad Atlantic in a daring chase which came pretty close to ending in sad disaster; next into the interior of Africa on a quest of grave importance; and lastly out into the mountainous regions of the wild West, to locate a mining claim belonging to Mr. Anderson Rover. In the present tale the scene is shifted to the Great Lakes. The three boys go on a pleasure tour and, while on Lake Erie, fall in with an old enemy, who concocts a scheme for kidnapping Dick, who had fallen overboard from his yacht in a storm. This scheme leads to many adventures, the outcome of which will be found in the pages that follow.