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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