Plain Tales of the North
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About This Book
Vignettes of voyageur fur trading life along with exploits of the Eskimo and Indians who lived north of sixty in the late 1800s,
Chapters (52)(click to expand)
- E-text prepared by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images digitized by the Google Books Library Project (https://books.google.com) and generously made available by HathiTrust Digital Library (https://www.hathitrust.org/)
- PLAIN TALES OF THE NORTH
- Tale I: A Grave in Saskatchewan
- Tale II: Traveling by Canoe
- Tale III: “Spot”
- Tale IV: In Civilization
- Tale V: A Pilot
- Tale VI: Native Mechanics
- Tale VII: War News in Husky Land
- Tale VIII: A Birch Bark Canoe
- Tale IX: A Silver Fox and a Scarf
- Tale X: Dead in the Storm
- Tale XI: A Strange Team
- Tale XII: A Moose Story
- Tale XIII: The Little Blue Lake
- Tale XIV: Forest Fires
- Tale XV: An Indian Wake
- Tale XVI: A Walrus Story
- Tale XVII: Mohican ... The Wolf
- Tale XVIII: Fighting Against Starvation
- Tale XIX: Wild Animals in the Water
- Tale XX: “Sunday”
- Tale XXI: Filming a White Bear on Land
- Tale XXII: Vermin and Ants
- Tale XXIII: A Greenhorn in a Rapid
- Tale XXIV: Large Fish
- Tale XXV: A Little Indian Girl
- Tale XXVI: Outlawed in the Barren Lands
- Tale XXVII: One Thousand Years
- Tale XXVIII: A Practical Joke
- Tale XXIX: Eskimo Arithmetic
- Tale XXX: “Caribou”
- Tale XXXI: In Siberia
- Tale XXXII: In the Hudson Straits
- Tale XXXIII: Whiskey Jack
- Tale XXXIV: Makejo
- Tale XXXV: Two Little Eskimo Boys
- Tale XXXVI: An Indian Warrior
- Tale XXXVII: Burro
- Tale XXXVIII: Travelling in North Alberta
- Tale XXXIX: Mother and Cubs
- Tale XL: An old Trader
- Tale XLI: Wolverine
- Tale XLII: “Spot” ... Again
- Tale XLIII: Homesick
- Tale XLIV: Gotehe
- Tale XLV: Pets in the Wilderness
- Tale XLVI: An Eskimo Guide in the Barren Lands
- Tale XLVII: Man and Wife
- Tale XLVIII: “Forty Years Ago”
- Tale XLIX: Fisher and Porcupine
- Tale L: The Call of the Wild North of Fifty-three
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