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Helen Fitzgerald Sanders. Trails Through Western Woods
Trails Through Western Woods
Table of Contents
PREFACE
THE GENTLE SELISH
TRAILS THROUGH. WESTERN WOODS. CHAPTER I. THE GENTLE SELISH
I
II
III
IV
ENCHANTED WATERS
CHAPTER II. ENCHANTED WATERS
I
II
LAKE ANGUS McDONALD
CHAPTER III. LAKE ANGUS McDONALD AND THE MAN FOR WHOM IT WAS NAMED
SOME INDIAN MISSIONS
CHAPTER IV. SOME INDIAN MISSIONS OF THE NORTHWEST
THE PEOPLE OF THE LEAVES
CHAPTER V. THE PEOPLE OF THE LEAVES
THE PASSING BUFFALO
CHAPTER VI. THE PASSING BUFFALO
I
II
III
IV
V
LAKE McDONALD & ITS TRAIL
CHAPTER VII. LAKE McDONALD AND ITS TRAIL
ABOVE THE CLOUDS
CHAPTER VIII. ABOVE THE CLOUDS
THE LITTLE SAINT MARY'S
CHAPTER IX. THE LITTLE SAINT MARY'S
TRACK OF THE AVALANCHE
CHAPTER X. THE TRACK OF THE AVALANCHE
INDIAN SUMMER
CHAPTER XI. INDIAN SUMMER
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Helen Fitzgerald Sanders
Published by Good Press, 2021
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There was also another cause for the nation's decline quite as destructive as the plague;—the unequal hostility continuing generation after generation, without capitulation or truce, with the Blackfeet. The country of the Selish abounded in game but it was a part of the tribal code of honour to hunt the buffalo in the fields where their ancestors had hunted. All of the deadly animosity between the two peoples, all of the bloodshed of their cruel wars, was for no other purpose than to maintain the right to seek the beloved herds in the favoured fields which they believed their forefathers had won. The jealousy with which this privilege of the chase was guarded and preserved even to the death explains many national peculiarities, forms, indeed, the keynote to their life of freedom on the plains.
It is possible that the Selish would have been annihilated had not the establishment of new trading-posts enabled them to get fire-arms which the Blackfeet had long possessed. This means of defence gave them fresh strength and thereafter the odds against them were not as great.
