Courtesy of Prof. Kirsten Silva Gruesz.
| PAGES | PLACE | MAJOR CHARACTERS | FOCAL POINTS | YEAR [as indicated by historical events] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3-80 | Chicago | Chums of Chance
Merle Rideout (and daughter Dally) Prof. Vanderjuice Scarsdale Vibe/ Foley Walker Lew Basnight Nate Privett [White City Investigations] |
Anarchism
Columbian Exposition spying/surveillance/detection global domination frontier, colonialism Aether, light, electricity [backstory for Lew and Merle; at end Merle & Dally leave for Denver where they meet Webb] |
1893 |
| 81-106 | Colorado | Webb Traverse family
(Mayva Dash; Reef, Frank, Lake, Kit) Rev. Moss Gatlin Veikko Rautavaara Nikola Tesla Foley Walker |
Anarchism
labor struggles in mines class warfare dynamite Gold/Silver standard Aether, light, electricity [at end, Foley persuades Kit to go to Yale] |
1899 |
| 107-55 | North Pole
[via Telluric Interior; ending in cityÑNew York?] |
Chums of Chance
The Vormance Expedition (Hunter Penhallow, Fleetwood Vibe) Capt. Igor Padzhinitoff’s airship (Russian rivals of Chums) |
antipodal geography
Upper Hierarchy/Command Hollow Earth Iceland spar (calcite) polar expeditions/exploration Quaternonism indigenous myths; supernatural occurrences [Figure destroys city; this undateable event becomes mythic] |
|
| 156-70 | New Haven
[and Vibe mansion on Long Island] |
Kit Traverse
Scarsdale Vibe Colfax Vibe (athletic son, also at Yale) R. Wilshire Vibe (brother of Scarsdale; vaudeville empresario) |
Ivy-League privilege
maps of unknown places African explorations family drama (of the rich) class warfare |
1900-1903 |
| 171-187 | Colorado
[and on to England via Anasazi ruins and Galveston] |
Lew Basnight
Nigel & Neville [Wildean English dandies] |
Kieselguhr Kid [name of mythic dynamiter–Webb?]
spying/surveillance/detection Anarchism drugs (cyclomite) |
1900 (Galveston hurricane) |
| 188-218 | Colorado | Webb Traverse
Mayva and Lake Traverse Veikko Rautavaara Deuce Kindred Sloat Fresno Jimmy Drop |
hired guns [Sloat & Deuce]
family drama Wild West |
1903 [Webb’s death “ten years ago” in 1913, p. 1005] |
| 199-218 | Utah-Colorado
[Jeshimon is a kind of Underworld, with its own rules] |
Frank Traverse
Reef Traverse Stray [Estrella] Briggs Jimmy Drop [baby Jesse born at end] |
family drama
Wild West Kieselguhr Kid law(lessness) homeopathy Hell bilocation [Reef is both at the Pole and in Co. as he reads novel] |
1903-4 |
| 219-42 | London; Oxford (Groton) | Nigel & Neville
Lew Basnight Yashmeen Halfcourt (and her Groton lovers) Cyprian Latewood Mme. Eskimoff rival professors Renfrew/Werfner |
Theosophists (TWIT)
spiritualism Tarot spying/surveillance/detection (Psychical) global domination |
1900- |
| 243-60 | Venice | Chums of Chance
Capt. Igor Padzhinitoff’s airship |
maps of unknown places
(Sfincuino Itinerary) Upper Hierarchy Iceland Spar Campanile of Venice |
1902 [Campanile falls] |
| 260-72 | Colorado | Lake Traverse
Deuce Kindred Sloat Fresno |
family drama | 1903-04 |
| 273-317 | Colorado
[and on to Mexico at end, with Frank in disguise as Pancho] |
Frank Traverse
Wren Provenance (Harvard anthropologist) Ellmore Disco Bob Meldrum Merle Rideout |
family drama
Aztln gunmen; Wild West myth Tesla vs. Edison Kieselguhr Kid gold/silver amalgamation with Iceland Spar Tommyknockers (little people of the mines) |
1904 |
| 318-35 | New Haven (and Long Island Sound) | Kit Traverse
Prof. Vanderjuice Colfax Vibe Nikola Tesla |
spying/surveillance
class warfare Tesla’s experiments (tower) |
1903? |
| 336-57 | New York
(and on ship bound for Europe at end) |
Dahlia (Dally) Rideout
R. Wilshire Vibe Erlys Zombini Luca Zombini |
family drama
vaudeville, play-acting magician’s tricks Iceland Spar Venice’s mirrors |
1903? |