The Book of the West

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Howard Angus Kennedy. The Book of the West

The Book of the West

Table of Contents

CHAPTER II. The Indian by Himself

CHAPTER III. The White Man Comes Exploring

CHAPTER IV. The Reign of King Beaver

CHAPTER V. The Farthest West

CHAPTER VI. The Windows Opened

CHAPTER VII. The Mounted Police

CHAPTER VIII. Our First and Last Indian War

CHAPTER IX. Opening the Door of the West

CHAPTER X. Our Fathers and Mothers Come In

CHAPTER XI. Riding the Plains in 1905

CHAPTER XII. Learning to be Canadians

CHAPTER XIII. The Tree of Freedom

CHAPTER XIV. On the Wings of the West

CHAPTER XV. A Flight Across the Plains

CHAPTER XVI. Up to the North and Home Again

THE SPIRIT OF THE WEST

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Howard Angus Kennedy

Published by Good Press, 2021

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The plains rise gently for a thousand miles from east to west; so gently that we do not notice the change, till we see the foothills swelling up and the sharp-edged mountains towering high beyond in a heavenly rampart of white and grey. Beyond the prairie, mountains on mountains, range after range, with roaring torrents in deep ravines; wider valleys, and placid lakes reflecting stately trees; the country smoothing down to the north, in a thick cloak of poplar and pine, and sinking in the south-west to a level plain, dark under thronging regiments of giant firs and cedars, along the coast of the western sea.

Far away in the south, the prairie is invaded by man. Not suddenly, or by a great armed host. Don’t imagine that the buffalo-hunting tribes known to our fathers came riding out on to the plains one day in a picturesque and mighty horde, as the invading Tartar host swarmed out over Europe. The first hunter of the plains had never heard of a horse.

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