This is primarily an animal story; it is also the story of two people, and their struggle to emerge from the chaos into which the failure of the fur trade, and the breaking down of the old proprietary system of hunting grounds, plunged the Indian people, and not a few whites, during the last two decades. Their means of livelihood destroyed by fire and the invasion by hordes of transient trappers and cheap fur buyers, these two, a man and a woman, newly married and with no prospects, broke loose from their surroundings taking with them all that was left to them of the once vast heritage of their people,—their equipment and two small animals as pets.
- AUTHOR'S SPECIAL PREFACE TO HIS ENGLISH READERS
- FOREWORD
- PREFACE
- BOOK ONE. TOULADI.
- PROLOGUE
- 1 . HOW ANAHAREO HAD HER WAY.
- 2 . HOW WE UNDERTOOK A NEW RESPONSIBILITY.
- 3 . HOW THE PILGRIMAGE COMMENCED.
- 4 . HOW WE CAME TO TOULADI.
- 5 . HOW WE CROSSED THE SLOUGH OF DESPOND.
- 6 . HOW WE BUILT THE HOUSE OF McGINNIS.
- 7 . HOW MCGINTY AND MCGINNIS OPENED A NEW DOOR.
- 8 . HOW WE MADE CHRISTMAS.
- 9 . HOW WE CAME TO THE DEPTHS.
- BOOK TWO. QUEEN OF THE BEAVER PEOPLE.
- 1 . HOW ANAHAREO LEFT TOULADI.
- 2 . HOW THE QUEEN AND I SPENT THE WINTER.
- 3 . THE COMING OF RAWHIDE.
- 4 . THE DARK HOUR AND THE DAWN.
- 5 . HOW WE LEFT RAWHIDE LAKE.
- 6 . HOW THE PILGRIMAGE WAS ENDED.
- EPILOGUE