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      James Oliver Curwood

      Western Classics: James Oliver Curwood Edition

      The Danger Trail, The Wolf Hunters, The Gold Hunters, The Flower of the North, The Hunted Woman…

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      2017 OK Publishing

      ISBN 978-80-272-1998-8

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

       The Wolf Hunters

       The Gold Hunters

       The Danger Trail

       The Flower of the North

       The Hunted Woman

       The Courage of Marge O'Doone

       The River's End

       The Valley of Silent Men

       The Country Beyond

       Table of Contents

       Chapter I. The Fight in the Forest

       Chapter II How Wabigoon Became a White Man

       Chapter III. Roderick Sees the Footprint

       Chapter IV. Roderick's First Taste of the Hunter's Life

       Chapter V. Mysterious Shots in the Wilderness

       Chapter VI. Mukoki Disturbs the Ancient Skeletons

       Chapter VII. Roderick Discovers the Buckskin Bag

       Chapter VIII. How Wolf Became the Companion of Men

       Chapter IX. Wolf Takes Vengeance Upon His People

       Chapter X. Roderick Explores the Chasm

       Chapter XI. Roderick's Dream

       Chapter XII. The Secret of the Skeleton's Hand

       Chapter XIII. Snowed In

       Chapter XIV. The Rescue of Wabigoon

       Chapter XV. Roderick Holds the Woongas at Bay

       Chapter XVI. The Surprise at the Post

      To my comrades of the great northern wilderness, those faithful companions with whom I have shared the joys and hardships of the "long silent trail," and especially to Mukoki, my red guide and beloved friend, does the writer gratefully dedicate this volume

      THE FIGHT IN THE FOREST

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      Cold winter lay deep in the Canadian wilderness. Over it the moon was rising, like a red pulsating ball, lighting up the vast white silence of the night in a shimmering glow. Not a sound broke the stillness of the desolation. It was too late for the life of day, too early for the nocturnal roamings and voices of the creatures of the night. Like the basin of a great amphitheater the frozen lake lay revealed in the light of the moon and a billion stars. Beyond it rose the spruce forest, black and forbidding. Along its nearer edges stood hushed walls of tamarack, bowed in the smothering clutch of snow and ice, shut in by impenetrable gloom.

      A huge white owl flitted out of this rim of blackness, then back again, and its first quavering hoot came softly, as though the mystic hour of silence had not yet passed for the night-folk. The snow of the day had ceased, hardly a breath of air stirred the ice-coated twigs of the trees. Yet it was bitter cold—so cold that a man, remaining motionless, would have frozen to death within an hour.

      Suddenly there was a break in the silence, a weird, thrilling sound, like a great sigh, but not human—a sound to make one's blood run faster and fingers twitch on rifle-stock. It came from the gloom of the tamaracks. After it there fell a deeper silence than before, and the owl, like a noiseless snowflake, drifted out over the frozen lake. After a few moments it came again, more faintly than before. One versed in woodcraft would have slunk deeper into the rim of blackness, and listened, and wondered, and watched; for in the sound he would have recognized the wild, half-conquered note of a wounded beast's suffering and agony.

      Slowly, with all the caution born of that day's experience, a huge bull moose walked out into the glow of the moon. His magnificent head, drooping under the weight

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