HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
Joan of Arc of the North Woods
Copyright, 1922
By Harper & Brothers
Printed in the U.S.A.
First Edition
H–W
Joan of Arc
of the North Woods
CHAPTER ONE
THE timber situation in the Tomah country was surcharged.
When Ward Latisan came upon Rufus Craig, one afternoon in autumn, steel struck flint and trouble’s fuse was lighted.
Their meeting was on the Holeb tote road just below Hagas Falls.
Young Ward was the grandson of old John, a pioneer who was in his day a saw-log baron of the times of pumpkin pine; by heredity Ward was the foremost champion in the cause of the modern independent operators.