Lost Farm Camp

Old Avery and his daughter Swickey live alone at Lost Farm in the Maine woods — she traps, gardens, shoots her own bear and cannot be taught her letters — until a quiet young stranger, taken on for the logging camps, comes their way with more to him than he lets on. Henry Herbert Knibbs rode the freights and worked his way across the country before he wrote, and the camp talk, the woods work and the dialect are set down by a man who had heard them. Sixty plates of snow, buffalo and winter forest, from Catlin to Dahl, answer the book's own cold woods and camp life.