Chapter I: Front Matter

Guardians--School--Trip to Nottawasaga--Journey to Alderville--Elder Case--The wild colt, etc

CHAPTER III.

Move into the far north--Trip from Alderville to Garden River--Father's work--Wide range of big steamboat--My trip to Owen Sound--Peril in storm--In store at Penetanguishene--Isolation--First boat--Brother David knocked down

CHAPTER IV.

Move to Rama--I go to college--My chum--How I cure him--Work in store in Orillia--Again attend college--Father receives appointment to "Hudson's Bay "--Asks me to accompany him.

CHAPTER V.

From Rama to St. Paul--Mississippi steamers--Slaves--Pilot--Race

CHAPTER VI.

Across the plains--Mississippi to the Red--Pemmican--Mosquitoes--Dogs--Hunting--Flat boat--Hostile Indians

CHAPTER VII.

From Georgetown on the Red to Norway House on the Nelson--Old Fort Garry--Governor MacTavish--York boats--Indian gamblers--Welcome by H. B. Co. people

CHAPTER VIII.

New mission--The people--School--Invest in pups--Dog-driving--Foot-ball--Beautiful aurora

CHAPTER IX.

First real winter trip--Start--Extreme fatigue--Conceit all gone--Cramps--Change--Will-power--Find myself--Am as capable as others--Oxford House--Jackson's Bay

CHAPTER X.

Enlarging church--Winter camp--How evenings are spent--My boys--Spring--The first goose, etc

CHAPTER XI.

Opening of navigation--Sturgeon fishing--Rafting timber--Sawing lumber

CHAPTER XII.

Summer transport--Voyageurs--Norway House--The meeting place of many brigades--Missionary work intensified

CHAPTER XIII.

Canoe trip to Oxford--Serious accident

CHAPTER XIV.

Establish a fishery--Breaking dogs--Dog-driving, etc.

CHAPTER XV.

Winter trip to Oxford--Extreme cold--Quick travelling

CHAPTER XVI.

Mother and baby's upset--My humiliation

CHAPTER XVII.

From Norway House to the great plains--Portaging--Pulling and poling against the strong current--Tracking

CHAPTER XVIII.

Enter the plains--Meet a flood--Reach Fort Carlton

CHAPTER XIX.

The Fort--Buffalo steak--"Out of the latitude of bread"

CHAPTER XX.

New surroundings--Plain Indians--Strange costumes--Glorious gallops--Father and party arrive

CHAPTER XXI.

Continue journey--Old "La Gress"--Fifty miles per day

CHAPTER XXII.

Fort Pitt--Hunter's paradise--Sixteen buffalo with seventeen arrows--"Big Bear"

CHAPTER XXIII.

On to White-fish Lake--Beautiful country--Indian camp--Strike northward into forest land

CHAPTER XXIV.

The new Mission--Mr. Steinhauer--Benjamin Sinclair

CHAPTER XXV.

Measurement of time--Start for Smoking Lake--Ka-Kake--Wonderful hunting feat--Lose horse--Tough meat

CHAPTER XXVI.

Mr. Woolsey--Another new mission

CHAPTER XXVII.

Strike south for buffalo and Indians--Strange mode of crossing "Big River"--Old Besho and his eccentricities--Five men dine on two small ducks

CHAPTER XXVIII.

Bear hunt--Big grizzlies--Surfeit of fat meat

CHAPTER XXIX.

The first buffalo--Father excited--Mr. Woolsey lost--Strike trail of big camp--Indians dash at us--Meet Maskepetoon

CHAPTER XXX.

Large camp--Meet Mr. Steinhauer--Witness process of making provisions--Strange life

CHAPTER XXXI.

Great meeting--Conjurers and medicine-men look on under protest--Father prophesies--Peter waxes eloquent as interpreter--I find a friend

CHAPTER XXXII.

The big hunt--Buffalo by the thousand--I kill my first buffalo--Wonderful scene

CHAPTER XXXIII.

Another big meeting--Move camp--Sunday service all day

CHAPTER XXXIV.

Great horse-race--"Blackfoot," "Moose Hair," and others--No gambling--How "Blackfoot" was captured

CHAPTER XXXV.

Formed friendships--Make a start--Fat wolves--Run one--Reach the Saskatchewan at Edmonton

CHAPTER XXXVI.

Swim horses--Cross in small boat--Dine at officers' table on pounded meat without anything else--Sup on ducks--No carving

CHAPTER XXXVII.

Start for new home--Miss seeing father--Am very lonely--Join Mr. Woolsey

CHAPTER XXXVIII.

William goes to the plains--I begin work at Victoria--Make hay--Plough--Hunt--Storm

CHAPTER XXXIX.

Establish a fishery--Build a boat--Neils becomes morbid--I watch him

CHAPTER XL.

Lake freezes--I go for rope--Have a narrow escape from wolf and drowning--We finish our fishing--Make sleds--Go home--Camp of starving Indians en route

CHAPTER XLI.

Mr. O. B.--The murderer--The liquor keg

CHAPTER XLII.

William comes back--Another refuge seeker comes to us--Haul our fish home--Hard work

CHAPTER XLIII.

Flying trip to Edmonton--No snow--Bare ice--Hard travel--A Blackfoot's prayer

CHAPTER XLIV.

Midnight mass--Little Mary--Foot-races--Dog-races, etc.--Reach my twentieth birthday--End of this book

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

Ka-Kake and the buffalo ... _Frontispiece_

Isaiah and the bear

The _Traveller_ in distress

How I cured my chum

My delight was to drive the four-in-hand

I had a big time keeping them out of our boat

My first winter trip

The upset

I lose my balance--and some conceit

Fort Carlton

An expert hunter

A new kind of boat

I kill my first bear

Buffalo and hunters disappeared in the hills from our view (missing from book)

We were surprised by a troop of Indian cavalry

Maskepetoon's camp

The buffalo hunt

When the camp moved, parallel columns were formed

The horse-race

"Gun-shock"--"Goose-comfort"

The start to the fishery

A big haul

A close call

Straight out from the danger the strong train drew us

FOREST, LAKE AND PRAIRIE.