Copyright, 1908,
BY LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.

All rights reserved

Published April, 1908

Printers
B. J. Parkhill & Co., Printers, Boston, U.S.A.

TO THOSE FEW REMAINING PIONEERS,
WHO KNEW THE NISQUALLY TRAIL INTO THE GREAT SOLITUDES,
IN TIMES BEFORE THE LOGGING RAILROAD DEVASTATED
THE PUGET SOUND HILLS, AND THE WILDER-
NESS BEGAN TO RECEDE AT THE
COMING OF THE BUILDER
OF TOWNSITES.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

  1. [The Teacher and the Freak of the Strange Thoroughbred]
  2. [The Leaning Tower]
  3. [The Camp at the Headwaters]
  4. ["Ther Biggest Coward in ther Woods"]
  5. [Stratton's Way]
  6. [Mose]
  7. [The Instrument of Tyee Sahgalee]
  8. ["I'm Going to Make Him White"]
  9. [Uncle Silas]
  10. [Lem and the *Phantom*]
  11. [The House-Raising]
  12. [A Face in the Night]
  13. [The Pressure of the Thumb-Screw]
  14. [The Salmon-trollers]
  15. [The Man in the Tide-rip]
  16. [The Fiery Lane]
  17. [The Man Who Bungled]
  18. [Water-logged]
  19. ["Andromeda Has Found a Perseus"]
  20. [The Grand Coup]
  21. [Hide and Seek]
  22. [For Little Silas]
  23. ["As Long as We Two Live"]
  24. ["A Man Of Straw"]
  25. [The Rockslide]
  26. [The Judge]
  27. [Lem Creates Fiction]
  28. [The Pressure of the Wilderness]
  29. [The Crack of Doom]
  30. [The Lost Prospect]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

["He looked down into her lifted face, believing yet not believing"] . . . Frontispiece