Digital texts of public domain sources are available at Project Gutenberg, and I had believed it would be a simple matter to use them to create a personal compilation. However, as I started examining the Gutenberg edition of The Son of the Wolf, I noticed numerous discrepancies. Moon-Face and When God Laughs also had some nasty clinkers, such as missing words or misarranged passages. Somewhat more forgivable, but still an error in my eyes, some of the Gutenberg editions were apparently transcribed from British publications, with British spelling.

Therefore, I decided to compare all of the digital texts to scans of the original American editions and adjust them to match. Given that effort, I consider this work worth publishing. While I would not consider this a nearly-forgotten treasure, it represents an outstanding collection of historically significant short stories, and deserves the touch of a devoted fan.

List of stories and sources:

• To the Man on Trail [1]
• The White Silence [1]
• In a Far Country [1]
• The Wisdom of the Trail [1]
• An Odyssey of the North [1]
• The Law of Life [2]
• The God of His Fathers [3]
• Bâtard [4]
• The League of the Old Men [2]
• Love of Life [5]
• The Wit of Porportuk [6]
• To Build a Fire [6]
• All Gold Canyon [7]
• The Apostate [8]
• South of the Slot [9]
• The Chinago [8]
• A Piece of Steak [8]
• Mauki [10]
• Koolau the Leper [11]
• The Strength of the Strong [9]
• War [12]
• The Mexican [12]
• Told in the Drooling Ward [13]
• The Water Baby [14]
• The Red One [15]

1. The Son of the Wolf [scan]
2. Children of the Frost [scan]
3. The God of His Fathers [scan]
4. The Faith of Men [scan]
5. Love of Life, and Other Stories [scan]
6. Lost Face [scan, backup scan]
7. Moon-Face and Other Stories [scan]
8. When God Laughs, and Other Stories [scan]
9. The Strength of the Strong [scan]
10. South Sea Tales [scan]
11. The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii [scan]
12. The Night-Born [scan]
13. The Turtles of Tasman [scan]
14. On the Makaloa Mat [scan]
15. The Red One [scan]

So here it is: the master HTML version, the home-brew Kindle version, and the actual Amazon publication.

April 29, 2024