Chapter I: Foreword

Here are stories of the wild life of the rich woods of
Oregon.

In following the adventures of Chinook, the cinnamon bear
and his sister Snookie (western prototypes of the jolly
black bears of New England), and of the Ranger’s Boy, the
child will learn of tree mice and burrow mice, and of the
little mountain pack-rats who build tepees, of those giant
mousers, the bobcat and the California mountain lion, to say
nothing of the bat, pika, elk, and “snowshoe rabbit,” and
the ever present Douglas squirrel.

He will wander through forests of spruce and fir to the
snow-clad peaks, and back along cascading rivers, as the two
cubs learn of the world in which they live.

The Literary Review of the New York _Evening Post_ has said
of a black bear book: “The little bear will delight all
children just because he is a ball of mischief, sagacity,
awkwardness—a real bear. Allen Chaffee’s books are unusual
for vivacity, humor, and truth to the characters of the no
longer dumb beasts.”

The Publishers.

CONTENTS

I A Boy and a Bear
II The Cubs Learn to Swim
III The California Lion
IV The Home in the Squirrel’s Nest
V Mr. and Mrs. Tree Mouse
VI Mazama the Mysterious
VII Lost in the Fog
VIII Team Work
IX Rat Town
X A Live Snowball
XI The Indian Trapper
XII In the Raven’s Nest
XIII Chinook Plays the Clown
XIV A Mouse on Wings
XV The Smuggler
XVI Douglas Squirrel Has Company
XVII Wapiti
XVIII A Cougar Goes Coasting
XIX Mountain Beaver
XX The Big ’Quake

CHINOOK THE CINNAMON CUB