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_ The Westerners _ , his next book , brought him $ 500 for the serial rights , and with its publication he definitely determined upon making authorship his calling . But it was not authorship in a study . _ The Blazed Trail _ was written in a lumber camp in midwinter . He got up at four o'clock , wrote until eight , then put on his snowshoes and went out for a day 's work . When the story was finished he gave it to the foreman of the camp to read . The man began it after supper , and when White got up next morning at four , he found him still reading , so he felt that the book would succeed . Another year he made a trip to the Hudson Bay country , and on his return wrote _ Conjurer 's House _ .