The terrible fires of Unaga crimsoning the white silent wastes are so vividly portrayed, that the reader must feel authenticity.  The strange “sleeper” Indians are real Indians, the big-souled Northwest policeman is not a superman, but a real human being, the girl is bonafide, the villain is not fictional, but an actual personality, brave and base alike—­all the characters are living and breathing folk, that you feel are there in far-off Unaga, and that you know you would find there, were you hardy enough to visit that remorseless country.

G, P. Putnam’s Sons

New York London

SNOWDRIFT

BY

JAMES B. HENDRYX

A Romance of the barrens—­“straight north—­between the Mackenzie and the Bay,” where Snowdrift, waif of the Arctic, Indian bred, bearing a false but heavy burden of shame, and Carter Brent, Southerner, find their great happiness among the icy wastes.

Swept to the Klondike by the first wave of the great gold rush, Brent plunges, with the enthusiasm of youth, into the whirl of Dawson, the city of men gone mad.  How luck sat upon his shoulder, and how his recklessness and daring won him the admiration of those wild times, until the raw red liquor of Alaska downed him “for the count,” is but the beginning of the tale; for with him, we are carried into the Northern night and fight the long fight back to manhood till purged by the cleansing cruelty of the Arctic.

G.P.  PUTNAM’S SONS

NEW YORK LONDON