Allen Chaffee

CHAPTER I A BOY AND A BEAR

CHAPTER II THE CUBS LEARN TO SWIM

CHAPTER III THE CALIFORNIA LION

CHAPTER IV THE HOME IN THE SQUIRREL'S NEST

CHAPTER V MR. AND MRS. TREE MOUSE

CHAPTER VI MAZAMA THE MYSTERIOUS

CHAPTER VII LOST IN THE FOG

CHAPTER VIII TEAM WORK

CHAPTER IX RAT TOWN

CHAPTER X A LIVE SNOWBALL

CHAPTER XI THE INDIAN TRAPPER

CHAPTER XII IN THE RAVEN'S NEST

CHAPTER XIII CHINOOK PLAYS THE CLOWN

CHAPTER XIV A MOUSE ON WINGS

CHAPTER XV THE SMUGGLER

CHAPTER XVI DOUGLAS SQUIRREL HAS COMPANY

CHAPTER XVII WAPITI

CHAPTER XVIII COUGAR GOES COASTING

CHAPTER XIX MOUNTAIN BEAVER

CHAPTER XX THE BIG 'QUAKE

Now swim! commanded their mother.

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.