The story follows a group of individuals, primarily focusing on their adventures and struggles as they navigate the wild landscapes of a remote and untamed region. The group includes characters with diverse backgrounds and skills, each contributing to the survival and success of their collective endeavor.As the characters venture deeper into the wilderness, they encounter both natural dangers and personal conflicts. The novel highlights their interactions with the environment and each othe...

The Complete Works of Edison MarshallThis Complete Collection includes the following titles:--------1 - The Sky Line of Spruce2 - The Snowshoe Trail3 - The Voice of the Pack4 - The Strength of the Pines5 - Shepherds of the Wild6 - The Isle of Retribution

The Strength of the Pines opens with Bruce Duncan, a capable but emotionally guarded city man, shaken by his foster father's death, mounting debts, and a summons that pulls him toward the Oregon wilderness. A cryptic message from Barney Wegan leads him to Trail's End, where an old mountain woman's insistence that Bruce be found hints at a buried family secret and a struggle over blood, inheritance, and identity. As Bruce leaves behind business troubles and sets out with little money, unsee...

The Voice of the Pack is a frontier drama of fate, inheritance, and the fierce pull of the wilderness. From its reflective opening in the muddy prairie city of Gitcheapolis to the mountains of southern Oregon, Edison Marshall traces how a frail, imaginative boy named Dan Failing is drawn toward a life shaped by instinct, duty, and the old laws of the wild. Dan's restless search for his roots leads him from city loneliness into a landscape where every choice carries consequence. In the Oreg...

Orignally published in The Blue Book Magazine (Oct 1920), "Little Death" tells the story of a mink named Little Death, following his interactions with a farmer and fellow forest creatures.

The lure of recently discovered gold-fields drew them all—Donna and her wise mother; Keith; the lovely Baroness Sonia Sarichef; and later Joe Baxter and an American doctor—to the vast jungles of Indo-China, where safe travel depended on the superstitious fears of strange men speaking a strange language. Mr. Marshall writes a moving story of the mounting passions of two men and two women set against the grandeur and terror of the unknown tropical forests. Surrounded by danger and oppressed ...

The manifold powers of circumstance were in conspiracy against Ned Cornet this late August afternoon. No detail was important in itself. It had been drizzling slowly and mournfully, but drizzle is not uncommon in Seattle. Ned Cornet had been passing the time pleasantly in the Totem Club, on Fourth Street, doing nothing in particular, nothing exceedingly bad or good or even unusually diverting; but such was quite a customary practice with him. Finally, Cornet’s special friend, Rodney Coburn...

Edison Marshall’s Dian of the Lost Land is a “lost world” fantasy novel following in the tradition of many older novels, the most famous of which is probably The Land That Time Forgot, by Edgar Rice Burroughs. More recent examples include The Lost Ones (1961), by Ian Cameron, which was filmed in 1968 by Walt Disney as Island at the Top of the World, and Lin Carter’s “Zanthodon” series. But there are many, many others.

Plot: The story revolves around a young man named Dan McFee, who leaves his home in the Midwest to seek adventure and fortune in the logging camps of the Pacific Northwest. He finds himself working in a remote camp under the leadership of the charismatic foreman, Red McGuire. Dan falls in love with the wilderness, the challenge of logging, and the camaraderie of the camp. However, he also faces hardships, dangers, and the inevitable conflict between man and nature.Themes: The novel explore...

In the untamed mountains of Idaho's Smoky Land, a bull elk named Spread Horn rules a living kingdom of canyon, forest, salmon streams, and hunting predators, until the first human intrusion turns the wilderness from wonder into warning. Edison Marshall's Shepherds of the Wild plunges into a frontier where animals, ranchers, and drifters collide, and where every shadow can carry danger, greed, or the chance of transformation. When Hugh Gaylord, a soft city man numbed by drink and comfort, i...

The Isle of Retribution plunges into a frozen world where survival is inseparable from guilt, courage, and revenge. Ned Cornet, crushed by captivity and his own failures, is forced to confront the brutal truth that only endurance and self-discipline can give Lenore and Bess any chance at all. Across the ice, Doomsdorf stalks them with cold mockery and a hunger for domination, threatening torture and humiliation to break their will, while Ned struggles to protect the women under impossible ...

Under a sky that can turn from Seattle rain to sudden moonlit splendor, The Sky Line of Spruce opens into a wilderness where beauty and danger are inseparable. Edison Marshall's rugged adventure follows Ben and Beatrice as a kidnapping, a revenge-driven flight, and a desperate pursuit carry them into the untamed North, where rivers, forests, and animals seem to answer something primal in the human soul. Swept through savage rapids and towering gorges, Beatrice discovers that her captor is ...