"Seated upon a thick, burlap-covered bale of freight—a "piece," in the parlance of the North—Chloe Elliston idly watched the loading of the scows. The operation was not new to her; a dozen times within the month since the outfit had swung out from Athabasca Landing she had watched from the muddy bank..." - Excerpt from the novel James B. Hendryx was an author and script writer of western adventures. Many of his famous novels and short stories were adapted into early films.