The Forester’s Daughter

Berea McFarlane, known to everyone as Berrie, can ride, shoot, and outwork most of the men in her father’s district. He is the forest supervisor for Colorado’s Bear-Tooth Range, and she has grown up among ranchers and rangers on ground she knows better than any of them. Already promised to a jealous rancher, Cliff Belden, she finds herself drawn instead to Wayland Norcross, a frail Eastern visitor who has come West for his health. Garland stated the mismatch plainly in his foreword: a girl desired by three strong men who gives her love to a tourist whose weakness is both her attraction and her burden. Around the courtship he sketches the young Forest Service and the high country he crossed on trips in 1909 and 1910.