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Excerpt from Tiger Rose: A Melodrama of the Great Northwest in Three Acts John.r.jdickerson, in his letter to Dr. Hugh Calvin of London and here I found a land peopled Wlbn the best and the worst: the Oxford Graduate on his homestead claim, side by side, with a renegade American later arrested for nuzdar in the States; the genial Hudson - Bay Factors with their ever-ready welcome to the stranger; the stolid - faced Indians whose moral life is so well guarded over by those wonderful men found wherever the finger of civilization has been pointed the Jesuit Priests; but above all, what most annealed to me, were the light-hearted young girls, children of the Canadian French, who laugh and jest with the stranger at the door and who wander alone singing through the dark, wolf-ridden forests, knowing no_fear. 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.