This listing is for a 277 page soft cover book – Canadian Wilds by Martin Hunter reprint copyright 1935 Published by A. R. Harding Pub Co
The soft cover has minimal wear. The inside is almost like new without stains or notations.
The author was an employee of the Hudson Bay Company at the time of the Civil War. He tells the history of the Hudson Bay Company, Northern Indians and their ways of hunting, and trapping
CONTENTS:
CHAPTER. PAGE.
I. THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY 7
II. THE FREE TRADER 14
III. OUTFITTING INDIANS 24
IV. TRACKERS OF THE NORTH 30
V. PROVISIONS FOR THE WILDERNESS 38
VI. FORTS AND POSTS 4C
VII. ABOUT INDIANS 5ii
VIII. WHOLESOME FOODS 60
IX. OFFICERS' ALLOWANCE 70
X. INLAND PACKS 77
XI. INDIAN MODE OF HUNTING BEAVER 83
XII. INDIAN MODE OF HUNTING LYNX AND MAR- TEN 96
XIII. INDIAN MODE OF HUNTING FOXES 103
XIV. INDIAN MODE OF HUNTING OTTER AND MUS-
QUASH 109
XV. REMARKABLE SUCCESS 117
XVI. THINGS TO AVOID 123
XVII. ANTICOSTI AND ITS FURS 132
XVIII. CHISELLING AND SHOOTING BEAVER 140
XIX. THE "INDIAN DEVIL" 150
XX. A TAME SEAL 158
XXI. THE CARE OF BLISTERED FEET 167
XXII. DEER SICKNESS 172
XXIII. A CASE OF NERVE 180
XXIV. AMPHIBITIOUS COMBATS 185
XXV. ART OF PULLING HEARTS 195 CHAPTER. PAGE.
XXVI. DARK FURS 202
XXVII. INDIANS ARE POOR SHOTS 211
XXVIII. A BEAR IN THE WATER 215
XXIX. VORACIOUS PIKE 220
XXX. THE BRASS-EYED DUCK: 225
XXXI. GOOD WAGES TRAPPING 232
XXXII. A PARD NECESSARY 239
XXXIII. AN HEROIC ADVENTURE 243
XXXIV. WILD OXEN 252
XXXV. LONG LAKE INDIANS 256
XXXVI. DEN BEARS 269
XXXVII. THE MISHAPS OF RALSON 270
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