The Blazed Trail Author:Stewart Edward White Stewart Edward White was an early 20th century American author. From 1900 until 1922, he wrote fiction and non-fiction about adventure and travel. After 1922 he and his wife wrote many books on channeling and the spirit world. White's readers enjoy his salted humor and stories about colorful characters such as the canny Indian guides and "gre... more »enhorn" campers who carried too much gear. Stewart White does an excellent job of capturing the logging business. The story takes place in Michigan. An excerpt reads, "So Radway got the "descriptions" and a little map divided into townships, sections, and quarter sections; and went out to look at it. He searched until he found a "blaze" on a tree, the marking on which indicated it as the corner of a section. From this corner the boundary lines were blazed at right angles in either direction. Radway followed the blazed lines. Thus he was able accurately to locate isolated "forties" (forty acres), "eighties," quarter sections, and sections in a primeval wilderness. The feat, however, required considerable woodcraft, an exact sense of direction, and a pocket compass." Conflict arises between an unscrupulous lumber firm and a man who works the land.« less