. On snow-shoes to the barren grounds [microform] : twenty-eight miles after musk-oxen and wood-bison. Hunting; Chasse. AT nil-; KROXTIKR «3 line, when Colorado ,ind New Mexico were wild and wool- ly, and the atmosphere was continuously shattered by cowboy whoops and leaden pellets. Edmonton, however, never passed through such a period of exhilaration. It had its days of waywardness, but its diversions were exceedingly commonplace. A few years ago it was almost surrounded by the battling-ground of the Crees and Blackfeet, and, as a matter of course, har- bored red and white renegades. There wa
. On snow-shoes to the barren grounds [microform] : twenty-eight miles after musk-oxen and wood-bison. Hunting; Chasse. AT nil-; KROXTIKR «3 line, when Colorado ,ind New Mexico were wild and wool- ly, and the atmosphere was continuously shattered by cowboy whoops and leaden pellets. Edmonton, however, never passed through such a period of exhilaration. It had its days of waywardness, but its diversions were exceedingly commonplace. A few years ago it was almost surrounded by the battling-ground of the Crees and Blackfeet, and, as a matter of course, har- bored red and white renegades. There was little law, and that little was not respected ; Indians out in the countrj' killed off their foes from ambush, and in town renegades revealed their coward's blood and lack of originality by stabbing their enemies in the back. There were none of those blood-stirring nights in town such as we used to have on our own frontier; no duels on the main thorough- fare between two "prominent citizens," with the remain- ing population standing by to see fair play; no cowb())'s to ride into saloons and shoot out the lights; no marks-. '\V-' .'•Ar^-'^ AN men so expert as to knock the neck off the whiskey-bottle in the bartender's hands, and no bartenders who under such conditions did not turn a hair. There was murdering in plenty in and around Edmon- ton in the old days, but no man maintained a private burying-ground. This is not a distinction without a dif-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Whitney, Caspar, 1862?-1929. New York : Harper
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