The modern hunter has to cover more ground, largely by means of trails laboriously cut through tangled under[8]growth, sometimes not setting over three or four effective traps in a ten-mile line. The country so far North is more broken, the rivers rougher, the climate more severe; the forest, amounting in some places to little more than a ragged jungle, offers resistances unknown to the traveller of earlier days. Steel traps have supplanted to a large extent the wooden deadfall, and the snare, and better firearms have simplified still-hunting; but game is scarcer, and harder to approach, except in very remote sections. Conditions have changed, and the terrain has shifted, but the kind of a man who follows the chase for a living remains the same; the desire to penetrate far-away hidden spots, the urge to wander, is there as it was in his prototype of two hundred years ago.
- PROLOGUE
- CHAPTER ONE. The Vanguard.
- CHAPTER TWO. The Land of Shadows.
- CHAPTER THREE. The Trail.
- CHAPTER FOUR. The Still-Hunt.
- CHAPTER FIVE. On Being Lost.
- CHAPTER SIX. The Fall of the Leaf.
- CHAPTER SEVEN. The Tale of the Beaver People.
- CHAPTER EIGHT. In the name of civilization.
- CHAPTER NINE. The House of McGinnis.
- CHAPTER TEN. The Trail of Two Sunsets.
- CHAPTER ELEVEN. Epilogue.
- FOOTNOTES
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