Nick, a 17-year-old on a train journey to find his father, strays off course and finds himself in the Limberlost Forest where he gains employment with a logging company, and learns the values of honesty, integrity, and true friendship.
Nick, a 17-year-old in search of his father, gains employment with a logging company in a beautiful and mysterious virgin forest known as the Limberlost. Through his relationships with new associates and his adventures in this new and strange environment, Nick learns the value of personal honesty and integrity and discovers what defines true friendship. He finds himself torn between his affection for Angelica, who believes with her Aunt Olivia that the forest should be preserved, and loyalty to his boss, the owner of the lumber company. In the end, this city boy must choose between his own safety and the lives of those he has come to love.—City Boy
Set at the turn of the 19th century in the American northwest, a boy from Chicago searches for his father and his own identity. Taking a job guarding a stand of forest for a lumber man, he meets a pretty young girl who thinks it is wrong to cut the trees down. When lumber thieves start stealing trees, the lumber man and the conservationists join forces.
