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The Lost Cabin Mine is a story by Frederick Niven. Niven was a Canadian novelist who produced over thirty works of fiction, an autobiography, poetry, essays, and pieces of journalism. Excerpt: "I hung my head and studied the planking of the verandah, then looked upward and gazed at the far-off glacier glittering under the blue sky, tried to wear the appearance of a deaf man who had not heard this altercation. Really I took the matter too seriously."

Frederick John Niven, (born March 31, 1878, Valparaiso, Chile-died Jan. 30, 1944, Vancouver, B.C., Can.), regional novelist who wrote more than 30 novels, many of them historical romances, set in Scotland and Canada. Educated in Scotland, Niven worked in libraries in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Three of his best-known novels-The Flying Years (1935), Mine Inheritance (1940), and The Transplanted (1944)-form a trilogy dealing with the settlement of the Canadian west.

A young Scottish immigrant seeks his fortune in the American west but falls in with some dishonest company. He experiences high adventures and eventually achieves great success.