xiv CONTENTS 



PART II 



CHAPTER PAGE 



I. The Taking of the Beaver 189 



II. The Making of the Moccasins 201 



III. The Indian Trapper 210 



IV. Ba'tiste, the Bear Hunter 223 



V. John Colter — Free Trapper 236 



VI. The Greatest Fur Company of the World .... 253 



VII. KOOT AND THE BoB-CaT 273 



VIII. Other Little Animals besides Wahboos the Rabbit — Being 

 an Account of Musquash the Muskrat, Sikak the Skunk, 



Wenusk the Badger, and Others 286 



IX. The Rare Furs — How the Trapper Takes Sakwasew the 

 Mink, Nekik the Otter, Wuchak the Fisher, and Wapistan 



the Marten 300 



X. Under the North Star — Where Fox and Ermine Run . . 314 



XI. What the Trapper Stands for 327 



Appendix to Part II 332 



