Lost River: Or, The Adventures of Two Boys in the Big Woods

by Allen Chaffee

A coming of age story featuring two boy scouts, Tim and Ralph. Tim is a seasoned outdoorsman, having grown up in the woods. Ralph is a city-slicker with not much experience in the outdoors beyond what his boy scout manual tells him. The boys become separated from their troop and must find a way back to civilization.

169 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1920

About the author

Antoinette Gurney (1884-1985) used her maternal grandfather's name, Allen Chaffee, as a pen name and took it as her own legal name in 1919.

She was a graduate of Wellesley College.