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Title: The Boy With the U. S. Foresters

Author: Francis Rolt-Wheeler

Release Date: July 19, 2006 [EBook #18874]

Language: English

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[Illustration: THE GIANTS OF THE FOREST AND THE MEN WHO SAFEGUARD THEM.

_Photography by U. S. Forest Service._]

U. S. SERVICE SERIES.

THE BOY WITH THE U. S. FORESTERS

BY FRANCIS ROLT-WHEELER

With Thirty-eight Illustrations from Photographs taken by the U. S.
Forest Service

BOSTON

LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO.

1910

To My Son Roger's Friend

WILBUR UFFORD

PREFACE

Much of the wilderness is yet but little trod. Great stretches of virgin
forest still remain within whose dim recesses nothing is changed since
the days the Indians dwelt in them. The mystery and the adventure are
not sped, the grandeur and the companionship still pulse among the
glades, the "call of the wild" is an unceasing cry, and to that call the
boy responds.

But if this impulse to return to the shelter of the wilds be still so
strong, how greatly more intense does it become when we awaken to the
fact that the forest needs our help even more than we need its sense of
freedom. When we perceive that the fate of these great belts of untamed
wilderness lies in the hands of a small group of men whose mastery is
absolute, when first we realize that national benefits--great almost
beyond the believing--are intrusted to these men, surely Desire and
Duty leap to grip hands and pledge themselves to the service of the
forests of our land. To breathe the magnificent spaces of the West, to
reveal the wealth and beauty of our great primeval woods, to acclaim the
worth of the men who administer them, and to show splendid possibilities
to a lad of grit and initiative is the aim and purpose of

THE AUTHOR.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
ENTERING THE SERVICE

CHAPTER II
PUTTING A STOP TO GUN-PLAY

CHAPTER III
THE FIGHT IN THE COULEE

CHAPTER IV
PICKING A LIVELY BRONCHO

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