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A NOTE ON THE TEXT

The present text of Pilgrims of the Wild is based on the Laurentian Library paperback reprint version of the original edition published by Macmillan of Canada in 1934. Grey Owl had a reputation for being protective of the tone and style of his writing, and this has been essentially respected in this edition with the exception of minor corrections of spelling and usage that have been made silently in this instance. No attempt has been made to modernize anything in Grey Owl’s text to bring it up-to-date with contemporary sensibility. This applies in particular to the use of the word Indian. Grey Owl disliked the term Red Indian, which was in wide use in his time, and felt that it was too suggestive of the “dime novel and blood-and-thunder literature.”