Project Gutenberg 2025-07-17 Public domain in the USA. 378 Malkus, Alida 1888 1976 Malkus, Alida Sims Malkus, Lyda Sims King, Ruth 1891 1977 King, Ruth (Illustrator) Timber line $aNew York :$bHarcourt, Brace and Company, $c1929. Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) "Timber line" by Alida Malkus is a novel written in the early 20th century. Set high in the Rockies, it follows Dawn O’Neill, a forest ranger’s daughter, as she defends meadows, wildlife, and water sources against trappers, overgrazing stockmen, and political schemers. Threaded through the conservation battles is a quest for the legendary Silverstake Pine, a boundary blaze tied to Pueblo rights and a rumored silver vein, and a budding alliance with an irrigation engineer who shares her reverence for water. The opening of the story paints a vivid mountain world: a lobo escapes a trap at the cost of a paw; Dawn discovers and springs other traps, then returns to the cabin where she and her father debate predator control, overstocked ranges, and the disputed reservation boundary marked by the lost “Silverstake” pine. We meet Hinray Dorsay and hear of trespassing goats and careless grazing that scar the meadows. Dawn drives a large herd of goats back into their pasture, locks the gate, and escapes two angry herders by swimming her pony across a cold mountain lake, where she encounters irrigation engineer Garen Shepherd; they quickly bond as she shows him a hidden waterfall and a subterranean stream, and points out the distant giant pine she suspects is the old witness tree. A struggling rancher named James seeks fair range help, which Dawn offers, while a wealthy banker, Perry, and a smooth lobbyist, Gershwin, arrive intent on “opening” the reservation and expanding range. Guiding them, Dawn explains the science of deferred grazing and watershed protection; they witness a government hunt that flushes a lion and the fabled lobo through the trees. The section closes with Gershwin probing for rumors of silver as the political and environmental stakes sharpen. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39076002720139 20250505120705malkus 1929 US Reading ease score: 83.5 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Mountain life -- Juvenile fiction Teenage girls -- Juvenile fiction Fathers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction New Mexico -- Juvenile fiction PZ Text Category: Adventure Category: Novels Category: American Literature 320191 2025-07-30T08:32:23.460162 text/html 288846 2025-07-17T15:41:40 text/html 752910 2025-07-30T08:32:28.432136 application/epub+zip 757040 2025-07-30T08:32:24.742176 application/epub+zip 440543 2025-07-30T08:32:24.016231 application/epub+zip 1842764 2025-07-30T08:32:31.559196 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1821139 2025-07-30T08:32:27.891173 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 301982 2025-07-30T08:32:22.648154 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 276874 2025-07-17T15:40:34 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15169 2025-07-30T08:32:31.713115 application/rdf+xml 18580 2025-07-30T08:32:24.271148 image/jpeg 1994 2025-07-30T08:32:24.145160 image/jpeg 659538 2025-07-30T08:32:23.520207 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia