On Canada's Frontier, with Frederick Remington Sketches, 1892

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On Canada’s Frontier
SKETCHES
OF HISTORY, SPORT, AND ADVENTURE
AND OF THE INDIANS, MISSIONARIES
FUR-TRADERS, AND NEWER SETTLERS
OF WESTERN CANADA
By Julian Ralph, 1892
325 pages, with 69 Illustrations by Frederick Remington
Searchable Text
- Bonus Book –
Forest, Lake
And Prairie
Twenty Years of Frontier Life
In Western Canada, 1842-1862
By John McDougall, 1895
267 pages, Illustrated, searchable
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ON CANADA’s FRONTIER
I. Titled Pioneers i
II. Chartering a Nation ii
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 244
IX. Dan Dunn's Outfit 290
ILLUSTRATIONS
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 Civilization 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" iii
Indians Hauling Nets on Lake Nepigon 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
Courcur du Bois 159
A Fur-trader in the Council Tepee 163
Buffalo Meat for the Post 167
The Indian Hunter of 1750
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 1 93
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 Tschummurn, 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 Dimn 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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