| The Promise | The Gold Girl | |
| The Gun Brand | Prairie Flowers | |
| The Texan | Snowdrift | |
| North | Without Gloves | |
| At the Foot of the Rainbow |
This edition is issued under arrangement with the publishers
G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York and London
The Knickerbocker Press, New York
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |||
| A Prologue | [3] | ||
| CHAPTER | |||
| I. | —Coarse Gold | [41] | |
| II. | —On Dyea Beach | [60] | |
| III. | —At the Mission | [72] | |
| IV. | —Ace-In-The-Hole | [84] | |
| V. | —Luck Turns | [93] | |
| VI. | —The Dealer at Stoell's | [104] | |
| VII. | —"Where Do I Go from Here?" | [120] | |
| VIII. | —The Plotting of Camillo Bill | [132] | |
| IX. | —Snowdrift Returns to the Band | [143] | |
| X. | —The Dinner at Reeves' | [155] | |
| XI. | —Joe Pete | [170] | |
| XII. | —On the Trail | [184] | |
| XIII. | —The Camp on the Coppermine | [198] | |
| XIV. | —In the Barrens | [206] | |
| XV. | —Moonlight | [223] | |
| XVI. | —Confessions | [243] | |
| XVII. | —In the Cabin of the "Belva Lou" | [260] | |
| XVIII. | —Lost | [277] | |
| XIX. | —Trapped | [293] | |
| XX. | —"You are White!" | [305] | |
| XXI. | —The Passing of Wananebish | [323] | |
| XXII. | —Claw Hits for Dawson | [339] | |
| XXIII. | —In the Toils | [351] | |
| XXIV. | —The Fight at Cuter Malone's | [364] |
SNOWDRIFT
A PROLOGUE
I
Murdo MacFarlane, the Hudson's Bay Company's trader at Lashing Water post, laid aside his book and glanced across the stove at his wife who had paused in her sewing to hold up for inspection a very tiny shirt of soft wool.
"I tell you it's there! It's bound to be there," he announced with conviction. "Just waitin' for the man that's man enough to go an' get it."