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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