CONTENTS 

 CHAPTER I 



IN A FRONTIER SETTLEMENT 

 The poof rich — The new-comer — The police — Joe Ryan . pp. 1-10 



CHAPTER II 



OUT TO LAKE 1LE A LA CROSSE 



Outfit — How to pack — Launching canoe — Forcing way through ice — 

 Entering Beaver River — Early nesting birds — Meeting with Red-skins 

 — Photographing nests — On Beaver River — Trapping mammals 



pp. 11-32 



CHAPTER III 



SEEKING THE SANDHILL CRANE 



Groping in the forest — Discovering sandhill cranes — South-west gale 

 bursts — Sandhill crane's nest found — Our culminating disappointment 



pp. 33-43 

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