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In the Canadian Northwest, the land is the hardest opponent—and sharing a trail means sharing the danger.
Two on the Trail by Hulbert Footner brings adventure and romance into the wild Canadian Northwest. Rivers, forests and open country shape the journey. Across these wide distances, travel becomes a test of endurance, and the pull of pursuit gives the trail an edge beyond the struggle to keep moving.
At the heart of this northern adventure is the bond between two people facing hard country together. Cold, hunger, injury and exhaustion give survival its urgency. Romance grows through shared hardship, where depending on another person for warmth, food and safety makes trust a necessity before it becomes a feeling.
What you’ll discover
- A wilderness that matters Follow a journey where rivers, forests and distance shape what the people can do.
- The pull of pursuit Feel how a trail turns travel into the tense possibility of being followed.
- Courage under pressure Explore the demands of survival, where care and endurance matter against cold and hunger.
- Trust before tenderness Discover romance rooted in shared hardship and the need to depend on someone else.
- Footner's northern country Enter the Canadian Northwest with an author whose writing draws on his own travels there.
Who will love it
Readers who love journeys through wild country, a steady hero and a spirited heroine, a villain who keeps coming, and a love story that grows quietly on the trail, with plenty of old-fashioned pursuit.
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The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A lunch that changes a journey
- Rough company on the stagecoach
- At the Landing the pursuit begins
- A skiff on the little river
- A fight in the storm
- The portage and a tale told by a stranger
- The man at the shack and a shot at the lake
- Marooned and besieged
- What the story is about and how it is told
Who’s who
- Garth PevenseyA quiet New York reporter and crack shot who agrees to take a stranger north, and who keeps his word whatever it costs.
- Natalie BlandA spirited young woman from Millerton, Ontario, who must reach Spirit River Crossing and will not be turned back by danger or discomfort.
- Nick GryllsThe biggest free trader on Lake Miwasa, loud and powerful, who becomes obsessed with Natalie and uses every man he controls to get her.
- Charley LandrumA seventeen-year-old runaway living alone at Caribou Lake, cheerful and brave, who devotes himself to helping Natalie and Garth.
- Mrs. MabynA frail, determined old lady and widow of a canon, who is set on sending Natalie to find her son.
- Herbert MabynMrs. Mabyn's son, a ruined charmer who lives in a shack on Clearwater Lake and whom Natalie has come to find.
- RinaA beautiful young woman of mixed blood who loves Mabyn faithfully, longs to become a lady, and knows how to heal.
- Paul SmileyThe old stagecoach driver, a dandy in a new hat who has sold his farm and still tells tall tales of the trail.
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Two on the Trail
by Hulbert Footner · 1911
A New York reporter agrees to guide a stranger into the Canadian wilds, with a ruthless trader on their heels.
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Two on the Trail is an adventure novel by Hulbert Footner, a writer of mystery and adventure stories who died in 1944. It sends a New York newspaper reporter and a young woman from Ontario deep into the Canadian Northwest in the early twentieth century.
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A lunch that changes a journey
Garth Pevensey, a reporter for the New York Leader, walks into Papps's restaurant in Prince George and is shown to a tiny booth already holding a farmer and his wife. Soon a slender young woman with chestnut hair and blue eyes is seated opposite him, the last free place in the house. Both of them keep their faces blank, as strangers should. Each is secretly delighted and each is secretly watching the other.
The farmer and his wife cannot bear the stiff silence and hurry out, leaving the two alone. The girl is furious with Garth for being so calm, and she is dying to laugh. When she wants the salt, she will not ask for it, and she thanks him in a tone full of indignation. Garth has no idea what he has done wrong.
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What is Two on the Trail about?
It is an adventure novel about Garth Pevensey, a New York reporter, and Natalie Bland, who must reach Spirit River Crossing in the Canadian Northwest. They travel by stage, boat and pony while trader Nick Grylls tries to stop them.
Who is Nick Grylls in Two on the Trail?
Nick Grylls is the biggest free trader on Lake Miwasa, a loud, powerful man with influence over many people in the country. He becomes obsessed with Natalie and uses his men and money to get in Garth's way.
Where and when is Two on the Trail set?
It is set in the Canadian Northwest in the early twentieth century, around Prince George, Miwasa Landing, Caribou Lake and the Spirit River. Stagecoaches, steamboats, York boats and pack horses carry the travelers.
The author
Hulbert Footner
1879–1944 · Canadian mystery writer
Hulbert Footner was a Canadian-born writer who lived from 1879 to 1944. He was born in Hamilton, Ontario, and later lived in Maryland in the United States. He wrote novels, detective stories, and nonfiction. His novel Two on the Trail was published in 1911.
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