HERO TALES OF THE FAR NORTH
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HERO TALES
OF THE FAR NORTH
By
JACOB A. RIIS
AUTHOR OF “HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES”
“THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN”
“THE OLD TOWN,” ETC.
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1919
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1910,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published September, 1910.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass. U.S.A.
THIS BOOK OF MY DEAD HEROES
I DEDICATE TO MY LIVING HERO
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
MAY IT BE MANY YEARS BEFORE THE LAST CHAPTER
OF HIS SPLENDID WHOLESOME LIFE IS
WRITTEN IN THE PAGES OF OUR
COUNTRY’S HISTORY