Strangers in the Forest (Brink - paperback)

Author: Carol Ryrie Brink

ISBN: 9780874220964

Binding: paperback

Section: Fiction

Bundy Jones heads west to investigate the people taking timber homesteads in the north Idaho woods, suspecting that their real intention is to sell out for profit to lumber companies. Jones befriends the homesteaders, wins their confidence, and even admires them. When his connection with the Forest Service is revealed, most of the homesteaders turn against him. But the inferno of a north Idaho forest fire once again unites Jones and the timber settlers.