Curwood loved the outdoors and is known for his conservation efforts. This adventurous story of a woman in peril begins 'It was all new - most of it singularly dramatic and even appalling to the woman who sat with the pearl-gray veil drawn closely about her face. For eighteen hours she had been a keenly attentive, wide-eyed, and partly frightened bit of humanity in this onrush of 'the horde.' She ...