Chapter III: A Famous Missionary 53

IV. Antoine's Moose-yard 66

V. Big Fishing 115

VI. "A Skin for a Skin" 134

VII. "Talking Musquash" 190

VIII. Canada's El Dorado 214

IX. Dan Dunn's Outfit 290

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_The Romantic Adventure of Old Sun's Wife_ Frontispiece

_Dr. Rudolph Meyer's Place on the Pipestone_ 2

_Settler's Sod Cabin_ 3

_Whitewood, a Settlement on the Prairie_ 4

_Interior of Sod Cabin on the Frontier_ 5

_Prairie Sod Stable_ 7

_Trained Ox Team_ 9

_Indian Boys Running a Foot-race_ 31

_Indian Mother and Boy_ 36

_Opening of the Soldier Clan Dance_ 39

_Sketch in the Soldier Clan Dance_ 43

_A Fantasy from the Pony War-dance_ 47

_Throwing the Snow Snake_ 51

_Father Lacombe Heading the Indians_ 61

_The Hotel--Last Sign of Civilisation_ 69

_"Give me a light"_ 73

_Antoine, from Life_ 79

_The Portage Sleigh on a Lumber Road_ 83

_The Track in the Winter Forest_ 87

_Pierre from Life_ 91

_Antoine's Cabin_ 93

_The Camp at Night_ 97

_A Moose Bull Fight_ 101

_On the Moose Trail_ 103

_In sight of the Game--"Now Shoot"_ 105

_Success_ 109

_Hunting the Caribou--"Shoot! Shoot!"_ 111

_Indians Hunting Nets on Lake Nipigon_ 119

_Trout-fishing Through the Ice_ 127

_Rival Traders Racing to the Indian Camp_ 137

_The Bear-trap_ 143

_Huskie Dogs Fighting_ 147

_Painting the Robe_ 151

_Coureur du Bois_ 159

_A Fur-trader in the Council Tepee_ 163

_Buffalo Meat for the Post_ 167

_The Indian Hunter of 1750_ 171

_Indian Hunter Hanging Deer Out of the Reach of Wolves_ 173

_Making the Snow-shoe_ 177

_A Hudson Bay Man (Quarter-breed)_ 181

_The Coureur du Bois and the Savage_ 185

_Talking Musquash_ 193

_Indian Hunters Moving Camp_ 198

_Setting a Mink-trap_ 201

_Wood Indians Come to Trade_ 205

_A Voyageur, or Canoe-man, of Great Slave Lake_ 209

_In a Stiff Current_ 211

_Voyageur with Tumpline_ 217

_Voyageurs in Camp for the Night_ 221

_"Huskie" Dogs on the Frozen Highway_ 227

_The Factor's Fancy Toboggan_ 233

_Halt of a York Boat Brigade for the Night_ 239

_An Impression of Shuswap Lake, British Columbia_ 251

_The Tschummum, or Tool Used in Making Canoes_ 257

_The First of the Salmon Run, Fraser River_ 261

_Indian Salmon-fishing in the Thrasher_ 266

_Going to the Potlatch--Big Canoe, North-west Coast_ 269

_The Salmon Cache_ 275

_An Ideal of the Coast_ 279

_The Potlatch_ 283

_An Indian Canoe on the Columbia_ 293

_"You're setting your nerves to stand it"_ 297

_Jack Kirkup, the Mountain Sheriff_ 299

_Engineer on the Preliminary Survey_ 303

_Falling Monarchs_ 308

_Dan Dunn on His Works_ 311

_The Supply Train Over the Mountain_ 313

_A Sketch on the Work_ 317

_The Mess Tent at Night_ 319

_"They Gained Erectness by Slow Jolts"_ 322

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