He leapt to the blazing fireplace, grabbed an iron poker lying on the hearth, and ran out the front door and around to the back of the house, just 1 THE JOURNEY as the Indian, a Sioux, hit the ground and stumbled. [...] Off to the right was the empty expanse of Lake Ontario, blue-grey on this 10 The Road to Fort Garry overcast day, and to the left, in the distance, was the Niagara escarpment. [...] At first they passed farmers sowing the first crops of the season, then the farther north they went the colder it got until the surrounding hillsides were patched with snow and some of the lakes were laced with ice. [...] By supper time Lull was shutting down the Internationals steam as she rounded the point into the Assiniboine River, bumping into the shallows of the north shore before coasting to a landing in front of the stone walls of the fort. [...] A large crowd had gathered along the bank to greet the ship, cheering the arrival of the overlanders and the steamer's successful inaugural run.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 813/.6
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
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- 0920663834 9781459331549
- LCCN
- PR9199.3.G34
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- J68 2002eb
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- 1 electronic text (vi, 233 p.)
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- Canada
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Dedication 7
- Acknowledgments 7
- Prologue 8
- The Road to Fort Garry 14
- The Road to Fort Edmonton 32
- The Road to Tête Jaune Cache 124
- The Road to Cariboo 178
- The Road to Fort Kamloops 198
- Epilogue 222
- Author's Note 231
- Endnotes 233
- Bibliography 238
- Index 239
- A 239
- C 239
- D 239
- F 239
- L 239
- M 239
- P 240
- R 240
- S 240
- T 240
- V 240
- W 240
