# The Indian Drum

Author: MacHarg, William, 1872-1951; Balmer, Edwin, 1883-1959; Benda, Wladyslaw T. (Wladyslaw Theodore), 1873-1948 [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33065

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Indian+Drum+MacHarg&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Near the northern end of Lake Michigan, where the bluff-bowed ore-carriers and the big, low-lying, wheat-laden steel freighters from Lake Superior push out from the Straits of Mackinac and dispute the right of way, in the island divided channel, with the white-and-gold, electric lighted, wireless equipped passenger steamers bound for Detroit and Buffalo, there is a copse of pine and hemlock back from the shingly beach. From this copse--dark, blue, primeval, silent at most times as when the Great Manitou ruled his inland waters--there comes at time of storm a sound like the booming of an old Indian drum. This drum beat, so the tradition says, whenever the lake took a life; and, as a sign p...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XXI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-indian-drum-33065/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-indian-drum-33065/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-indian-drum-33065/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-indian-drum-33065/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-indian-drum-33065/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-indian-drum-33065/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-indian-drum-33065/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-indian-drum-33065/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-indian-drum-33065/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-indian-drum-33065/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-indian-drum-33065/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-indian-drum-33065/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-indian-drum-33065/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-indian-drum-33065/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-indian-drum-33065/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-indian-drum-33065/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-indian-drum-33065/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-indian-drum-33065/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-indian-drum-33065/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-indian-drum-33065/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-indian-drum-33065/chapters/17/index.md)