The rusty-haired, broad-freckled son of a Manhattan banker spends many of his young days on his father's commodious estate in the north woods. He is much with guides and backwoods farmers—Scotsmen, French-Canadians, half-breed Indians. He grows up a strong young adept at their life with ax, rod, gun, canoe. Their children are his playmates and he, after attending Princeton University, is not convinced that some dainty creature from Philadelphia or New York would make him as good a wife as Lena Wilson, the stocky daughter...
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