New Introduction, editing, annotations, and cover by Linda Pendleton.
In this 1902 book, The Blazed Trail, Stewart Edward White tells the story of pioneer lumbermen in the northern woods of Michigan. At one time many years ago, the New York Times wrote that The Blazed Trail was White’s top selling book of the many popular books he wrote. He writes of the many aspects and challenges faced by a group of lumbermen, especially the hard work and determination of Harry Thorpe to be successful in his business endeavors. As always in his novels, Stewart Edward White mixes the beauty of nature, and conservation, with suspense, danger, and romance.
The Blazed Trail Excerpt:
Thorpe followed and found himself on the frozen platform of a little dark railway station. As he walked, the boards shrieked under his feet and the sharp air nipped at his face and caught his lungs. Beyond the fence-rail protection to the side of the platform he thought he saw the suggestion of a broad reach of snow, a distant lurking forest, a few shadowy buildings looming mysterious in the night. The air was twinkling with frost and the brilliant stars of the north country.
Directly across the track from the railway station, a single building was picked from the dark by a solitary lamp in a lower-story room. The four who had descended before Thorpe made over toward this light, stumbling and laughing uncertainly, so he knew it was probably in the boarding-house, and prepared to follow them.
In Linda Pendleton’s new Introduction we learn who Stewart Edward White was and the legacy he left of his many fiction and nonfiction books following his death in 1946. An explorer, conservationist, naturalist, and big game hunter, his love for nature, conservation, and adventure were to become very much a part of his literary works over his long literary career. Several of his nonfiction works are classics in the exploration of the paranormal and communication from the spirit world. He wrote with passion, whether about the adventures beyond the veil or about adventures in nature and the earthly frontier.
Linda Pendleton is author of nonfiction and fiction books, comics, and ecourses. She is coauthor of the popular nonfiction book, To Dance With Angels written with her husband, Don Pendleton. Don and Linda also wrote the nonfiction, Whispers From the Soul, and the crime novel, Roulette. Whispers From the Soul, and the crime novel, Roulette. Linda's fiction includes Shattered Lens: Catherine Winter, Private Eye, and The Dawning. Linda is a member of the Authors Guild Inc. and Authors Foundation.
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