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

Chapter 3: ILLUSTRATIONS.
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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.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

Dog-Train for the North Frontispiece
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Cerf-Vola, the Esquimaux Dog 16
View from the Spathanaw Watchi 31
“Our Hut at the Forks of the Saskatchewan” 43
Sunset Scene, with Buffalo 57
Tent in the Great Prairie 69
The Valley of the Peace River 158
Alone in the Wilderness 181
Night into Day 187
The Wolf-Chase 189
Clinging to the Canoe 239
Mount Garnet Wolseley and the Peace River 266
Cutting up the Moose 271
Running stern foremost the Black Cañon 283
“The Look-out Mountain” 327