Publisher's Synopsis
Before the railroad's thin strains of metallic bit their manner up thru the desolate tract, Athabasca Landing become the picturesque threshold over which one ought to step who might input into the thriller and journey of the fantastic white North. It remains Iskwatam - the "door" which opens to the decrease reaches of the Athabasca, the Slave, and the Mackenzie. It is truly hard to locate on the map, but it is there, due to the fact its records is written in extra than one hundred forty years of romance and tragedy and journey with inside the lives of men, and isn't always easily forgotten. Over the antique path it become approximately one hundred and fifty miles north of Edmonton. The railroad has delivered it closer to that base of civilization, but past it the desolate tract nevertheless howls because it has howled for one thousand years, and the waters of a continent glide north and into the Arctic Ocean. It is viable that the lovely dream of the actual-property sellers can also additionally come true, for the maximum avid of all of the sportsmen of the earth, the money-hunters, have arise at the bumpy railroad that every so often lighting fixtures its slumbering automobiles with lanterns, and with them have come typewriters, and stenographers, and the artwork of printing advertisements, and the Golden Rule of individuals who promote handfuls of earth to hopeful clients hundreds of miles away - "Do others as they might do you." And with it, too, has come the valid enterprise of barter and trade, with eyes on all that treasure of the North which lies among the Grand Rapids of the Athabasca and the threshold of the polar sea. James Oliver "Jim" Cur wood (1878-1927) becomes an American action-journey writer and conservationist. His books ranked amongst Publisher's Weekly top-ten best dealers with inside the United States with inside the early 1920s. In The Valley of Silent Men, a Mountie who believed that he become dying "intentionally instructed a lie that branded him as a murderer" and set a person free. His path associate and a lovely thriller woman are positive that Kent isn't always a murderer. The Mountie recovers and turns into a fugitive to locate the actual murderer.