The Man of the Forest

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - At sunset hour the forest was still lonely sweet with tang of fir and spruce blazing in gold and red and green; and the man who glided on under the great trees seemed to blend with the colors and disappearing to have become a part of the wild woodland. Old Baldy highest of the White Mountains stood up round and bare rimmed bright gold in the last glow of the setting sun. Then as the fire dropped behind the domed peak a change a cold and darkening blight passed down the black spear-pointed slopes over all that mountain world. It was a wild richly timbered and abundantly watered region of dark forests and grassy parks ten thousand feet above sea-level isolated on all sides by the southern Arizona desert - the virgin home of elk and deer of bear and lion of wolf and fox and the birthplace as well as the hiding-place of the fierce Apache.