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Title: In the Brooding Wild

Author: Ridgwell Cullum

Illustrator: Charles Livingston Bull

Release Date: March 12, 2010 [EBook #31607]

Language: English

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[Illustration: "THERE IS NO MOVEMENT IN THE SAVAGE BODY BUT THE FURIOUS,
NOISELESS LASHING OF THE TAIL" (_See page 244_)]

IN THE BROODING WILD

By RIDGWELL CULLUM

Author of

"The Story of The Foss River Ranch," "The Law Breakers,"
"The Way of the Strong," Etc.

[Illustration]

With Frontispiece

By CHARLES LIVINGSTON BULL

A. L. BURT COMPANY

Publishers--New York

Published by Arrangement with The Page Company

Copyright, 1905

By L. C. Page & Company

(INCORPORATED)

All rights reserved

CONTENTS

I. On the Mountainside 1
II. Which Tells of the White Squaw 15
III. The Quest of the White Squaw 34
IV. The Hooded Man 55
V. The White Squaw 79
VI. The Weird of the Wild 93
VII. In the Storming Night 112
VIII. The Unquenchable Fire 130
IX. To the Death 142
X. The Battle in the Wild 157
XI. The Gathering of the Forest Legions 174
XII. Where the Laws of Might Alone Prevail 188
XIII. Out on the Northland Trail 213
XIV. Who Shall Fathom the Depths of a Woman's Love? 228
XV. The Tragedy of the Wild 239

IN THE BROODING WILD

CHAPTER I.

ON THE MOUNTAINSIDE

To the spirit which broods over the stupendous solitudes of the northern
Rockies, the soul of man, with all its complex impulses, i