Excerpt from The Story of a Pathfinder Lady mary It is many years since I left that delightful reporting world about which you are so curious. But it is still vivid in my memory. I will try to give you a glimpse of that time of pioneering in letters, when the great dailies and the art of shorthand and the arts of the news paper men were still young in America. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.