Front matter
Reading edition
By Edison Marshall
The Voice of the Pack
The Strength of the Pines
The Snowshoe Trail
Shepherds of the Wild
The Sky Line of Spruce
The Heart of Little Shikara
The Isle of Retribution
The Land of Forgotten Men
Seward’s Folly
SEWARD’S
FOLLY
BY
EDISON MARSHALL
BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1924
Copyright, 1924,
By Little, Brown, and Company.
All rights reserved.
Published July, 1924.
Printed in the United States of America
To the memory of Albert, Ralph, and
Webb Marshall and to Griffin Marshall,
my uncles, men of Illinois who fought in
America’s greatest war.
FOREWORD
The mysterious lapse of the Treaty of 1889 between the great Russian and English companies is obscured in the shadows of the past. No historical evidence exists that Secretary of State Seward was instrumental in blocking the treaty, and parts of the narrative dealing therewith must be regarded as purely fictitious. Otherwise Mr. Seward is presented according to my most sincere interpretation of this profound though lucid genius. The prickly international situations of the time, the Sitka of 1867, and the various characters are as nearly true as can be seen through the misty distance of sixty years.