THE
BLACK WOLF PACK
BY
NATIONAL SCOUT COMMISSIONER, B.S.A.
ILLUSTRATED
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
NEW YORK
[iv]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
[v]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 remoteand unfrequented places in the RockyMountains, from Wyoming to Alberta, thewriter was deeply impressed with the awesomemystery of the wilderness and the weirdlegends he heard around the camp fires,while the bigness of the things he saw wasphotographed on his brain so distinctly andpermanently as to act as a compelling forcecausing him, aye, almost forcing him to writeabout it.
When the spell came upon him, like theAncient Mariner, he needs must tell the story,and thus the tale of the Black Wolf Pack waswritten with no thought, at the time, ofpublishing the narrative, but primarily forthe real enjoyment the author derived fromwriting it, and also for the entertainment ofthe author’s family and intimate friends.
[viii]The tale, however, pleased the members ofthe Editorial Board of the Boy Scouts ofAmerica, and Mr. Franklin K. Mathiews,Chief Scout Librarian, asked permission tohave it edited for the Scout Magazine, whichrequest was cheerfully granted.
The author hereby freely and cheerfullyacknowledges the useful changes and practicalsuggestions injected into the stor