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The Wild North Land / The Story of a Winter Journey with Dogs across Northern North America

Chapter 1: The Wild North Land THE STORY OF A WINTER JOURNEY WITH DOGS ACROSS NORTHERN NORTH AMERICA
By Sir William Francis Butler
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An energetic travel narrative recounts a winter crossing of northern North America by a lone traveller with sled dogs, following frozen rivers and prairie forts through a mountain cañon into northwestern forests and toward the Fraser watershed. It blends vivid landscape and weather descriptions, camp routine and dog-team travel, encounters with local people and remote trading posts, anecdotes about animals and hunting methods, and practical reflections on survival and solitude. Chapters alternate route chronicle, natural history sketches, and social observation, producing a lively portrait of seasonal change and the practical rhythms of long-distance winter travel on foot and by dog-sled.

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Title: The Wild North Land

Author: Sir William Francis Butler

Release date: September 13, 2021 [eBook #66296]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

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DOG-TRAIN FOR THE NORTH.

Frontispiece.

The Wild North Land
THE STORY OF A WINTER JOURNEY WITH
DOGS ACROSS NORTHERN NORTH AMERICA

BY LIEUTENANT-GENERAL
SIR WILLIAM FRANCIS BUTLER, G.C.B.
AUTHOR OF
“THE GREAT LONE LAND” AND “RED CLOUD, THE SOLITARY SIOUX”

“I cannot rest from travel. I will drink life to the lees.”
“I am become a name for always roaming with a hungry heart.”

WITH FIFTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS AND A MAP

TORONTO
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF
CANADA, LTD.
1910

SIR WILLIAM BUTLER’S WILD NORTH LAND.

Part of
BRITISH
NORTH AMERICA
to illustrate
“THE WILD NORTH LAND”
Weller & Graham L^{td}. Litho, London
BURNS & OATES.

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