IN THE BROODING WILD (A WESTERN NOVEL)

IN THE BROODING WILD......is a story of fierce passions, of trickery and theft, of coquetry and murder, and deep tragedy, limned sharply against a background of the rugged untamed wilderness.

Ralph and Nick Westley, two brother trappers living alone in their hut in a small clearing of the forest, know no other affection that for each other. They were dull men, but honest, whose passions had never been aroused beyond this brotherly love. Therefore when Victor Gagnon, the half-breed trader, st...