Produced by Audrey Longhurst and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. BIG TIMBER A Story of the Northwest By BERTRAND W. SINCLAIR With Frontispiece By DOUGLAS DUER 1916 CONTENTS CHAPTER I. GREEN FIELDS AND PASTURES NEW II. MR. ABBEY ARRIVES III. HALFWAY POINT IV. A FORETASTE OF THINGS TO COME V. THE TOLL OF BIG TIMBER