Strangers in the Forest

by Carol Ryrie Brink

Book Overview

Strangers in the Forest, originally published in 1959, was included in the Reader's Digest Condensed Books series. Set in the white-pine timberland of the Idaho panhandle in 1908, the story explores the efforts of the early U.S. Forest Service to instill a sense of conservation in the land--a new concept affecting Idaho's seemingly inexhaustible forests.

Bundy Jones heads west to investigate the people taking timber homesteads...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874220963
• ISBN13: 9780874220964
• Release Date: September 1993
• Publisher: Washington State University Press
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

an old favorite

I read the condensed Readers Digest version of this book years ago when I was in my early teens and loved it. I always thought it would make a good TV movie or mini-series akin to The Awakening Land with Elizabeth Montgomery. It's about homesteaders at the turn of the century, several very different people who have to make a place to live in the forest. They all have different motives, different experiences, and ultimately different outcomes. I highly recommend this book for anyone!