Author: Claud Francis Burton

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-25

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 9780266718116

Excerpt from The Call of the Mate No horizon is so dim or far away that another just beyond, more dim, more remote and formidable, does not level across the boundless blue. The sky line beyond the Chilco ranch to the north, jagged, rocky, somber, held a repellent warning to the pioneer of the soil, for its mysteries were those of the gold seekers who do not stop until the end has been reached. Then they may turn back, blear eyed, forlorn, disheartened, perhaps, with shoulders stooped, hope blasted on the once eager faces, with the trembling hands which cold and exposure im poses, and with a story which the heart longs to tell to a willing listener. Circled by the broad rim of this distant horizon was a green meadow, ringed with a forest of pine, spruce and fir. On the south edge of the sixty-acre meadow was a cabin of logs; a curl of smoke told of life within. A creek cut the grassy meadow through the center, and to it a few head of cattle had made their way for a drink and were now returning to the corral. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.