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JACK, THE YOUNG EXPLORER
_By the same Author_
JACK THE YOUNG COWBOY JACK THE YOUNG TRAPPER JACK THE YOUNG CANOEMAN JACK THE YOUNG EXPLORER JACK IN THE ROCKIES JACK AMONG THE INDIANS JACK THE YOUNG RANCHMAN PAWNEE HERO STORIES AND FOLK TALES BLACKFOOT LODGE TALES THE STORY OF THE INDIAN THE INDIANS OF TO-DAY THE PUNISHMENT OF THE STINGY AMERICAN DUCK SHOOTING AMERICAN GAME BIRD SHOOTING TRAILS OF THE PATHFINDERS
"THE TENT WAS SHIVERING AND SHAKING AND FROM IT EMERGEDGROANS AND GROWLS."--_Page 130_]
_A Boy's Experiences in the Unknown Northwest_
BY GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL
Author of "Jack in the Rockies," "Jack the Young Ranchman," "Jack Among the Indians," "Pawnee Hero Stories," "Jack the Young Trapper," etc.
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NEW YORK FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1908, by FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
_September, 1908_
Eighth Printing
_Printed in the United States of America_
FOREWORD
These rough and rocky fastnesses protected them well.
The Indians of the plains never tried to pass beneath these gloomywalls. Occasionally a white man or half-breed, more frequently a littleband of Kootenay or Stoney Indians, true mountaineers, followed up theserivers for a short distance, hunting the game and trapping the beaver;but in those days game was so plentiful that these occasional excursionsmade no impression on it. The Indians had few guns and huntednoiselessly, chiefly with bows and arrows. For the most part, it waseasier to kill the buffalo of the plains by the swift chase than to gointo the rough mountains and hunt the game that lived higher up.
It was into this region, as yet unknown to white people, that Jack andhis friends now entered, in order to explore it and learn for themselveswhat it held.