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Excerpt from The Boy's Book of Pioneers The great west and north-west Of North America has always had a fascination for people; it would seem to be the happy hunting ground of our dreams the place where a man may live in touch with wild Nature, and feel the lash of the wind, the keen smack of the icy air - where real, hard, virile life is to be found and lived. Who Of us has not revelled in the Stories of the Old-time pioneers of the west? 'well, here is the story of one Of those men - the first white man to venture across into the great unknown. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.