After paddling alone for several days—"it was so quiet I could hear the drops from the paddle hitting the water"—he came upon "the lake of my boyhood dreams." He never left. He named the place Cache Lake because there was stored the best that the north had to offer—timber for a cabin; fish, game, and berries to live on; and the peace and contentment he felt he could not live without.Cache Lake Country is a vivid and faithful chronicle of life in the great Northern Forest and a storehouse of valuable information on woodcraft and nature. Here is folklore and philosophy, but most of all wisdom about the woods and the inventiveness and self-reliance they demand. The author explains how to make moccasins, barrel stoves, lean-to shelters, outdoor bake ovens, sailing canoes, and hundreds of other ingenious and useful gadgets, all illustrated in the margins with 230 enchanting drawings by Henry B. Kane.

    We are shown the matriarchs around whom their families spin; but whether they direct their children gently or forcefully, in the end they have to accept them as they are.

    After his death, life is hard, fighting back loneliness and eking out a meager pension. So when her brother Dan, newly demobbed from the Navy, arrives to whisk them away to the seaside, Dinah can at last find peace - and, when she least expects it, love.

    Nine women meet weekly at Granny Hite's house to work on bridal quilts.

    

    He became known for his theatrical drawings for the Herald Tribune and the New York Times and for other newspapers and magazines. In addition he is an accomplished lithographer and had a one-man show in 1940 at the Associated American Artists Gallery. His prints are also in the collections of the Metropolitan and Whitney Museums, and he has ilustrated many of Saroyan’s books. His satire of army life, It Shouldn’t Happen, was published in 1945. At present he is busy drawing and painting in California, where he lives with his wife and baby son.”(This was written before Don had turned from sketches and lithographs of New York life to writing and illustrating children’s books. His first children’s book, written with his wife Lydia, was Chuggy and the Blue Caboose, published in 1951. Of course, Don continued to sketch and make illustrations of everybody and everything he saw.)