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In The Brooding Wild is a story of fierce passions, of trickery and theft, of coquetry and murder, and deep tragedy, limned sharply against a background of the rugged untamed wilderness. Ralph and Nick Westley, two brother trappers living alone in their hut in a small clearing of the forest, know no other affection that for each other. They were dull men, but honest, whose passions had never been aroused beyond this brotherly love. Therefore when Victor Gagnon, the half-breed trader, stopped over night at their hut, told them the story of the White Squaw, how she dwelt alone in the wilderness, how she was of the tribe of the Moosefoot with skin as the petal of the lily flower and hair softer than the black fox's fur, how her eyes burned blue and she was tall as a queen, the brothers lent listening ears to the tale and determined to find this White Squaw to see if it were true. Together they set out in search for her...
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