Excerpt from The Trapper's Daughter: A Story of the Rocky MountainsThe wind blew fiercely, the heat was oppressive, the grasshoppers uttered their discordant cries under the herb age that sheltered them, the birds slowly described wide circles in the air, uttering shrill notes at intervals: coppery clouds were incessantly pass ing athwart the sun, whose pale, Sickly beams possessed no strength in short, all presaged a terrible storm.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.