James Oliver Curwood was an early 20th century writer who lived in Michigan, where he published several novels a year. 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 had heard a voice behind her speak of it as ＂the horde＂ - a deep, thick, gruff voice which she knew without looking had filtered its way through a beard.＂