The Wolf Hunters: A Tale of Adventure in the Wilderness

by James Oliver Curwood, C M Relyea (Illustrator)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781589635654
Publisher:	Fredonia Books (NL)
Publication date:	10/01/2001
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	5.08(w) x 8.02(h) x 0.82(d)

About the Author

James Oliver Curwood was an early 20th century writer who lived in Michigan, where he published several novels a year. Curwood loved the outdoors and is known for his conservation efforts. His action/adventure stories are often set in Canada or northern United States. The Wolf Hunters begins: "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."

Table of Contents

I	The Fight in the Forest	1
II	How Wabigoon Became a White Man	21
III	Roderick Sees the Footprint	35
IV	Roderick's First Taste of the Hunter's Life	55
V	Shots in the Wilderness	80
VI	Mukoki Disturbs the Ancient Skeletons	97
VII	Roderick Discovers the Buckskin Bag	127
VIII	How Wolf Became the Companion of Men	145
IX	Wolf Takes Vengeance Upon His People	168
X	Roderick Explores the Chasm	187
XI	Roderick's Dream	207
XII	The Secret of the Skeleton's Hand	221
XIII	Snowed In	239
XIV	The Rescue of Wabigoon	264
XV	Roderick Holds the Woongas at Bay	284
XVI	The Surprise at the Post	301