The blazed trail

An honest young lumberman struggles against the subterfuges and attacks of an aggressive and duplicitous logging company. Set in the Saginaw area and the Upper Peninsula in the 1880s. Stewart Edward White (1873-1946) grew up in Grand Rapids, MI and was a graduate of the University of Michigan. An avid camper and outdoorsman, Theodore Roosevelt said he was “the best man with both pistol and rifle who ever shot” at Roosevelt’s rifle range at Sagamore Hill. White wrote fiction and non-fiction about adventure and travel, with an emphasis on natural history and outdoor living. Beginning in 1922,…