The Man of the Forest

The wilderness has a voice, and Milt Dale knows its language. He has lived alone in the deep forest for years, a man more comfortable among the pines than among people. But when he overhears Snake Anson and his killers plotting to kidnap Helen Rayner, the young woman arriving to claim her uncle's ranch, Milt's solitary life ends. Someone has to protect her. Helen Rayner has come west to inherit what should be hers, but the mountains hide men who would kill for land, and they have no intention of letting her reach her uncle's ranch alive. As the outlaws close in, Milt becomes her only shield between civilization and the lawless wild. He must use every skill his years alone have taught him tracking, surviving, and the keen instincts of a man who has learned to read danger before it strikes. Zane Grey, the master of Western adventure, weaves a tale where the forest itself becomes a character, beautiful and terrible, indifferent to man's struggles but full of secrets. This is the early West in its rawest form, where a lone woodsman with a rifle might be the only justice a woman can find.