Chapters (18)
- THE BACKWOODSMEN
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- The Vagrants of the Barren
- MacPhairrson’s Happy Family
- On Big Lonely
- From Buck to Bear and Back
- In the Deep of the Snow
- The Gentling of Red McWha
- Melindy and the Lynxes
- Mrs. Gammit’s Pig
- The Blackwater Pot
- The Iron Edge of Winter
- The Grip in Deep Hole
- The Nest of the Mallard
- Mrs. Gammit and the Porcupines
- The Battle in the Mist
- Melindy and the Spring Bear
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