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Title: The Black Wolf Pack

Author: Dan Beard

Release Date: July 19, 2007 [EBook #22109]

Language: English

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THE
BLACK WOLF PACK

BY

DAN BEARD

NATIONAL SCOUT COMMISSIONER, B.S.A.

ILLUSTRATED

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
NEW YORK

[Illustration: It was a shadowy figure yet it moved]

COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY BOYS' LIFE

Printed in the United States of America

_All rights reserved. No part of this book
may be reproduced in any form without
the permission of Charles Scribner's Sons_

DEDICATED TO

BELMORE AND FRED
(BELMORE BROWNE) (FREDERICK K. VREELAND)

NO BETTER WILDERNESS MEN EVER
WORE MOCCASINS

PREFACE

After numerous visits to a number of remote and unfrequented places in
the Rocky Mountains, from Wyoming to Alberta, the writer was deeply
impressed with the awesome mystery of the wilderness and the weird
legends he heard around the camp fires, while the bigness of the things
he saw was photographed on his brain so distinctly and permanently as to
act as a compelling force causing him, aye, almost forcing him to write
about it.

When the spell came upon him, like the Ancient Mariner, he needs must
tell the story, and thus the tale of the Black Wolf Pack was written
with no thought, at the time, of publishing the narrative, but primarily
for the real enjoyment the author derived from writing it, and also for
the entertainment of the autho