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The Wild Huntress: Love in the Wilderness
The narrative unfolds in the backdrop of the American frontier, centering around Frank Wingrove, a young landowner who faces challenges with a squatter named Hickman Holt.
"The Wild Huntress: Love in the Wilderness" by Mayne Reid is a novel. The narrative unfolds in the backdrop of the American frontier, centering around Frank Wingrove, a young landowner who faces challenges with a squatter named Hickman Holt.
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The white-headed eagle, soaring above the spray of a Tennessean forest, looks down upon the clearing of the squatter. To the eye of the bird it is alone visible; and though but a spot in the midst of that immense green sea, it is conspicuous by the colour of the trees that stand over it. They stand, but grow not: the girdling ring around their stems has deprived them of their sap; the ivory bill of the log-cock has stripped them of their bark; their leaves and twigs have long since disappeared; and only the trunks and greater branches remain, like blanched skeletons, with arms upstretched to heaven, as if mutely appealing for vengeance against their destroyer.
The squatter’s clearing, still thus encumbered, is a mere vistal opening in the woods, from which only the underwood has been removed. The more slender saplings have been cut down or rooted up; the tangle of parasitical plants have been torn from the trees; the cane-brake has been fired; and the brush, collected in heaps, has melted away upon the blazing pile. Only a few stumps of inferior thickness give evidence, that some little labour has been performed by the axe.
Contents
- 01The Squatter’s Clearing.
- 02Chapter Two.
- 03Marian and Lilian.
- 04Chapter Three.
- 05The Lovers’ Rendezvous.
- 06Chapter Four.
- 07The Catastrophe of a Kiss.
- 08Chapter Five.
- 09Squatter and Saint.
- 10Chapter Six.
- 11An Apostolic Effort.
- 12Chapter Seven.
- 13The Mormon’s Demand.
- 14Chapter Eight.
- 15A splendid Pension.
- 16Chapter Nine.
- 17Friendly Advice.
- 18Chapter Ten.
- 19A Classic Land.
- 20Chapter Eleven.
- 21The “Jackson Hotel.”
- 22Chapter Twelve.
- 23Colonel Kipp.
- 24Chapter Thirteen.
- 25Through the Forest.
- 26Chapter Fourteen.
- 27Su-Wa-Nee.
- 28Chapter Fifteen.
- 29Making a Clean Breast of it.
- 30Chapter Sixteen.
- 31A Predicament in Prospect.
- 32Chapter Seventeen.
- 33The Indian Summer.
- 34Chapter Eighteen.
- 35A Backwoods Venus.
- 36Chapter Nineteen.
- 37A Series of Contre-Temps.
- 38Chapter Twenty.
- 39Sweet and Bitter.
- 40Chapter Twenty One.
- 41A Rude Response.
- 42Chapter Twenty Two.
- 43A Rough Reception.
- 44Chapter Twenty Three.
- 45A Duel without Seconds.
- 46Chapter Twenty Four.
- 47Waiting the Word.
- 48Chapter Twenty Five.
- 49The Duel Delayed.
- 50Chapter Twenty Six.
- 51The Peacemaker.
- 52Chapter Twenty Seven.
- 53Yes—Yes!
- 54Chapter Twenty Eight.
- 55An Errand of Love.
- 56Chapter Twenty Nine.
- 57A red-skinned Sibyl.
- 58Chapter Thirty.
- 59A Storm without and within.
- 60Chapter Thirty One.
About this edition
- Author
- Mayne Reid
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 490 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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