# Footprints in the Forest

Footprints in the Forest by Edward Sylvester Ellis has 69,529 words.

## At a glance

- **Author:** [Edward Sylvester Ellis](https://musael.com/books/authors/edward-sylvester-ellis.md) (1840–1916)
- **Genre:** historical fiction
- **Readers:** middle grade

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 69,529
- **Reading time:** 4 h 38 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 7 h 29 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 5 h 48 min | 12 days |
| 250 wpm | 4 h 38 min | 10 days |
| 300 wpm | 3 h 52 min | 8 days |

## Read or listen

Footprints in the Forest is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25980

## 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: 33
- Dialogue: 12% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 23.9 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25980 (word count)
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1796322W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25980

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.

Source: https://musael.com/books/footprints-in-the-forest