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Title: Joan of Arc of the North Woods

Author: Holman Day

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Language: English

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JOAN OF ARC OF THE NORTH WOODS

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BOOKS BY HOLMAN DAY

JOAN OF ARC OF THE NORTH WOODS
WHEN EGYPT WENT BROKE
ALL-WOOL MORRISON
THE RIDER OF THE KING LOG
THE SKIPPER AND THE SKIPPED
THE RED LANE
THE RAMRODDERS
THE LANDLOPER
WHERE YOUR TREASURE IS
SQUIRE PHIN
BLOW THE MAN DOWN

Harper & Brothers Publishers
New York and London

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JOAN OF ARC OF THE NORTH WOODS

by

HOLMAN DAY

Author of
"The Rider of the King Log," "When
Egypt Went Broke," Etc.

Harper & Brothers, Publishers
New York and London

Joan of Arc of the North Woods

Copyright, 1922
By Harper & Brothers
Printed in the U.S.A.

First Edition
H-W

_Joan of Arc of the North Woods_

CHAPTER ONE

The timber situation in the Tomah country was surcharged.

When Ward Latisan came upon Rufus Craig, one afternoon in autumn, steel
struck flint and trouble's fuse was lighted.

Their meeting was on the Holeb tote road just below Hagas Falls.

Young Ward was the grandson of old John, a pioneer who was in his day a
saw-log baron of the times of pumpkin pine; by heredity Ward was the
foremost champion in the cause of the modern independent operators.

In his own way, Craig, the field director of the Comas Consolidated
Paper Company, was the chief gladiator for an invading corporation which
demanded monopoly of the Tomah timber by absorption of the independents.

Latisan tramped down the tote road from the shoulder of Holeb Mountain,
where he had been cruising alone for a week on the Walpole tract,
blazing timber for the choppers, marking out twitch road