Dog Sledging in the North 



A good many years ago, my friends, Boies 

 Penrose, Granville Keller, and I concluded 

 that it would be a fitting termination to a very 

 successful summer and fall hunting trip in the 

 Rocky Mountains to endeavor to kill some 

 moose and caribou in the Lake Winnipeg 

 country, Manitoba. Thus we should combine 

 very different kinds of sport amid surround- 

 ings more dissimilar than we imagined at the 

 time. The whole of this rather memorable 

 trip occupied nearly six months. 



Our adventures during the latter part of the 

 hunt, that is, during our sojourn in the far 

 north— while a part of the every-day experi- 

 ence of those familiar with the winter life in 

 the woods of that country — were of a character 

 totally unknown to the majority of sportsmen 

 in the United States, and for this reason it has 

 been thought worth while to give a short 

 account of them. 



If my recollection serves me correctly, we 

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