Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIII. On His Wedding Journey. AND NOW NAGOS mounts to the back of the grey, and the other two ponies are packed with a bran new moose skin lodge, and some choice forest provisions, and with the three young men on foot, and amid the quiet benedictions of parents and friends, Nagos turned her back on all her past. And in this she was even doing as the daughters of Eve have done from the beginning--leaving father and mother, and cleaving unto her husband. She alone of this little party was in measure sad, but she remembered that her lover-husband had promised to bring her again to the camp of her people within the circle of the moons. And she fully trusted him. White Buffalo was proud and intensely happy. He had won the great prize he set before him, and his queen, Nagos, was going with him to the lodges of his people. Snake Skin was full of hope. He believed the Little Star looked upon him with favor, and Niska was glad to go with his sister and see for himself and his friends the camps of the plain warriors and hunters in the new country. Simultaneous with their departure, the northern Crees struck camp, and loading their canoes embarked for the lower levels of lake and river. The North Wind Maker sang the songs of his youth to cheer his own heart, but more so that of the faithful wife and mother, who could not but shed some tears as she paddled in her place in the swift moving birch canoe. Her only daughter, and such a child as Nagos, had gone out of her home, and while she was proud of the alliance with one so noble as White Buffalo, still her heart was sad. And then her boy--what dangers was he going into? What risks would he run? But she was praying for her children: "Oh, Great Good Spirit, and ye spirits all, pity and bless...
