Footprints in the Forest

At a glance

Author

Edward Sylvester Ellis1840–1916

Genre

Historical fiction

Readers

Middle grade

Length

Standard40,000 to 80,000 words

How long it takes to read

About 4 h 38 min at 250 words a minute, or 7 h 29 min as an audiobook.

Compared with other books

The books closest in length, and a few well-known ones for scale.

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7. 7Footprints in the ForestEdward Sylvester Ellis69,529
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Counted from the text

Automated estimates from the selected Project Gutenberg text; it may include a preface or notes.

Words in the text

69,529

Chapters

33about 2,107 words each

Dialogue

12%of the words are inside quotation marks

Average sentence

23.9 words

Vocabulary

421 different words in every 1,000Distinct words in the sampled text; this does not measure writing quality.

Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

• gutenberg.orgword count
• openlibrary.orgcover and record

The word count is Musael’s own count of the Project Gutenberg text, which can include a preface or notes.

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition. Cover from Open Library; the edition shown may differ.

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