item: #1 of 22
          id: 11402
      author: Marshall, Edison
       title: The Sky Line of Spruce
        date: None
       words: 92539
      flesch: 87
     summary: Once more Ben turned to the mouth of the cavern. Once more Ben glanced at the wolf.
    keywords: beatrice; ben; canoe; cave; chan; chance; claim; course; darby; dark; day; days; death; eyes; ezram; face; father; fear; feet; fenris; find; fire; forest; girl; going; good; half; hand; heart; home; instant; lay; left; life; lips; man; men; mind; moment; neilson; night; ray; rifle; river; spruce; thing; thought; time; voice; water; way; white; wild; wolf; work
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        item: #2 of 22
          id: 16541
      author: Sinclair, Bertrand W.
       title: Poor Man's Rock
        date: None
       words: 90346
      flesch: 89
     summary: By the time young Jack MacRae outgrew the Island teachers and must go to Vancouver for high school and then to the University of British Columbia, old Donald had been compelled to borrow money on his land to meet these expenses. And Jack MacRae himself, when he topped the height which gave clear vision for many miles of shore and sea, drew a deep breath and halted for a long look at many familiar things.
    keywords: abbott; bay; betty; betty gower; big; blackbird; boat; business; cannery; come; cove; day; donald macrae; end; eyes; face; father; ferrara; fish; fishermen; folly; going; good; gower; gulf; hand; head; home; horace; house; island; jack macrae; life; look; macrae; man; matter; men; mind; money; norman; old; pay; people; place; point; price; rock; run; salmon; saw; sea; season; squitty; stubby; things; thought; time; want; war; way; white; wind; years; young
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        item: #3 of 22
          id: 16926
      author: Cumming, R. D. (Robert Dalziel)
       title: Skookum Chuck Fables: Bits of History, Through the Microscope
        date: None
       words: 37631
      flesch: 78
     summary: But at home men saw nothing in her but 'a good girl,' simple and pleasant in her way, spinning and sewing by her mother's side while the other girls went to the fields--tender to the poor and sick. He had known men of a few weeks standing only, rise to the very apex of popularity, while he, with his ten years initiation, had not yet developed brains enough, in the estimation of the Ashcroft people, that would justify them in placing in his charge the management of the most trivial social affair.
    keywords: ashcroft; children; course; creek; day; days; dollars; earth; eskimo; family; girl; home; house; human; husband; ice; indian; johnny; life; local; love; man; men; mind; money; morning; new; people; peter; place; river; saw; society; south; things; time; trail; water; way; white; wife; woman; world; years
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        item: #4 of 22
          id: 21495
      author: Fenn, George Manville
       title: To The West
        date: None
       words: 149164
      flesch: 91
     summary: Said I shouldn't go till I'd paid a hundred dollars. Mr Esau Dean, may I have the pleasure of helping you to some poy? He says he shall be an emigrant, my dear, and shall go and build himself a house in the woods.
    keywords: bit; boy; come; course; day; dean; dempster; esau; eyes; face; fellow; find; fire; going; gold; good; gordon; gunson; half; hand; head; help; john; know; lad; little; long; look; looking; man; mayne; men; mother; mr gunson; mr raydon; mrs; place; quong; raydon; right; river; round; saw; sir; tell; thought; time; want; water; way; yes
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        item: #5 of 22
          id: 23389
      author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
       title: Handbook to the new Gold-fields
        date: None
       words: 33857
      flesch: 60
     summary: The fact is, that there is now in California so extensive an association of capital and labour engaged in mining successfully, that, happen what may in other countries, the `yield' here most continue to be very great. The miner in question clearly described the older slate formations thrown up and pierced by beds of quartz, granite, porphyry, and other igneous rocks; the vast accumulations of sand, gravel, and shingle extending from the roots of the mountains to the banks of Fraser River and its affluents, which are peculiar characteristics of the gold districts of California and other countries.
    keywords: + =; = +; = =; bay; british; coast; columbia; company; country; day; degrees; dollars; etcetera; fort; francisco; fraser; fraser river; gold; good; government; great; hudson; indians; island; latitude; majesty; miles; mountains; new; north; point; pounds; river; san; south; time; vancouver; victoria; west
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        item: #6 of 22
          id: 28483
      author: Johnson, E. Pauline
       title: Legends of Vancouver
        date: None
       words: 29368
      flesch: 79
     summary: great men of my tribe,' he cried. Beyond the doorway gathered many old men and women--old in years, old in wisdom, old in the lore and learning of their nations.
    keywords: canoe; chief; child; children; coast; day; days; evil; eyes; girl; grey; heart; indian; island; legend; man; medicine; men; mother; people; river; rock; sea; time; tribes; tyee; waters; white; world; years; young
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        item: #7 of 22
          id: 28719
      author: Lambert, Thomas Wilson
       title: Fishing in British Columbia With a Chapter on Tuna Fishing at Santa Catalina
        date: None
       words: 34244
      flesch: 74
     summary: The artificial minnow of various kinds, the spoon, and the dead bait on a crocodile or Archer spinner are all used, and the prawn has lately been tried with deadly effect on large fish. It would be quite easy to put boats on them should the need arise, and larger fish are reported to abound in some of them.
    keywords: british; columbia; country; day; fish; fish lake; fisherman; fishing; fly; fraser; good; kamloops; lake; line; pacific; rainbow; river; salmon; silver; size; species; sport; steel; thompson; time; trout; tuna; water
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        item: #8 of 22
          id: 28741
      author: Hough, Emerson
       title: The Young Alaskans on the Trail
        date: None
       words: 68591
      flesch: 91
     summary: At last Alex said, I think this will do for the evening, if you don't mind. By the time they had their breakfast finished and camp broken Alex had already returned from a trip along the side of the rapids.
    keywords: alex; bear; boat; boys; camp; country; course; day; fire; good; jesse; john; lake; look; mackenzie; man; meat; men; miles; moise; mountains; place; right; river; rob; saw; stream; time; trail; trip; water; way; white; work
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        item: #9 of 22
          id: 29183
      author: Bindloss, Harold
       title: Partners of the Out-Trail
        date: None
       words: 90476
      flesch: 92
     summary: Jim half consciously moved his hand to his jacket and then stopped. Now, however, Jim half consciously assumed firm control, with his comrade's support.
    keywords: bank; bernard; camp; carrie; country; dark; dick; evelyn; face; fellow; fire; going; good; ground; halliday; jake; jim; job; lance; langrigg; left; line; look; man; martin; men; money; mordaunt; mrs; punt; saw; shanks; talk; thing; thought; time; want; water; way; winter; work
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        item: #10 of 22
          id: 29588
      author: Watson, Robert
       title: The Spoilers of the Valley
        date: None
       words: 111495
      flesch: 90
     summary: He feinted round Phil, then ran in on him. Jim introduced the farmer to his partner as Mr. Phil Ralston, one of the most shrewd financial men in the West, loaded him up with cigars, then got him into his Catteline-Harvard, drove him slowly past every other real-estate office in town, then out into the country.
    keywords: away; bank; big; bit; boy; brenchfield; business; come; dalton; day; days; derue; devil; dollars; door; eileen; end; eyes; face; father; fellow; girl; god; going; good; great; guess; half; hand; hannington; hanson; head; heart; home; horse; jim; jim langford; kind; lady; land; langford; left; let; life; little; look; making; man; mayor; men; mind; moment; money; morning; new; old; pederstone; phil; phil ralston; place; ralston; ranch; right; road; room; round; royce; set; sing; smiler; sol; think; thought; time; town; valley; vernock; voice; want; way; white; word; work; years; young
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        item: #11 of 22
          id: 29650
      author: Bindloss, Harold
       title: The Greater Power
        date: None
       words: 103530
      flesch: 84
     summary: Sometimes they could see the boulders among which they stumbled, and the river frothing at their feet, but for the most part they saw nothing, and groped onward with dazzled eyes, until at last Nasmyth swung himself up on the narrow staging that overhung the pool beneath the fall, and Gordon heard the sticks of giant-powder jolt against the side of the magazine. This is Mr. Nasmyth, she said.
    keywords: acton; big; bush; cañon; deal; eyes; face; fact; girl; glanced; good; gordon; guess; half; hamilton; hand; hold; kind; land; laura; light; man; mattawa; matter; men; miss; moment; mrs; nasmyth; ranch; river; rock; round; saw; thing; time; violet; want; water; waynefleet; wheeler; wisbech; work
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        item: #12 of 22
          id: 29885
      author: Laut, Agnes C.
       title: The Cariboo Trail A Chronicle of the Gold-fields of British Columbia
        date: None
       words: 24835
      flesch: 82
     summary: Man after man had fallen, and the five survivors in the bank were all wounded. The Scarborough raft, with men from Whitby and Scarborough, near Toronto, swirled out to midstream on the afternoon of the 1st of September. 'Poor, poor white men,' sighed the Indians; 'no more see white men'; but the men in the canoes rapped the gunnels with their paddles and uttered rousing cheers.
    keywords: bank; british; camp; canyon; cariboo; columbia; company; country; creek; day; dollars; douglas; fort; fraser; gold; horses; indians; lake; man; men; miles; miners; nuggets; overlanders; pack; party; prospectors; river; road; round; trail; trees; victoria; water; way; yale
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        item: #13 of 22
          id: 31728
      author: Watson, Robert
       title: My Brave and Gallant Gentleman: A Romance of British Columbia
        date: None
       words: 77239
      flesch: 90
     summary: Old man Clark talked all the way on his favourite topic; he talked while he inserted the key in the door and he kept on talking as he walked in, all intent on his wonderful egg-hatcher. Too much ain't good for your complexion, old man.
    keywords: andrew; away; bay; boat; brammerton; business; clark; crescent; day; door; end; eyes; face; george; god; golden; good; grant; great; guess; half; hand; harry; head; home; horsfal; house; jake; joe; kind; know; lady; left; life; like; look; love; man; mary; men; mind; miss; moment; morning; new; open; order; place; right; rita; round; sea; set; store; thought; time; voice; want; water; way; work
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        item: #14 of 22
          id: 3478
      author: Johnson, E. Pauline
       title: Legends of Vancouver
        date: None
       words: 28887
      flesch: 79
     summary: great men of my tribe,' he cried. Beyond the doorway gathered many old men and women--old in years, old in wisdom, old in the lore and learning of their nations.
    keywords: canoe; chief; child; children; coast; day; days; evil; eyes; girl; grey; heart; indian; island; legend; man; medicine; men; mother; people; river; sea; time; tribes; tyee; waters; white; world; years; young
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        item: #15 of 22
          id: 38747
      author: Bindloss, Harold
       title: Thrice Armed
        date: None
       words: 106451
      flesch: 85
     summary: Have you met the Miss Merril Jimmy mentioned? Jimmy face grew furrowed, and he set his lips tight; but he said nothing, and the girl went on: It was not so the next time you came back.
    keywords: anthea; austerly; board; boat; companion; course; deal; eleanor; eyes; face; fact; father; feel; forster; girl; glanced; good; half; hand; head; hold; jimmy; jordan; kind; man; men; merril; miss; moment; money; question; right; room; saw; schooner; sea; shasta; skipper; smile; sorata; thing; time; valentine; want; water; way; wheelock; white
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        item: #16 of 22
          id: 45870
      author: Phillipps-Wolley, Clive
       title: Gold, Gold, in Cariboo! A Story of Adventure in British Columbia
        date: None
       words: 85356
      flesch: 85
     summary: As he stood in the little room looking quizzically at his friend's work, Ned Corbett, in his old blue shirt and overalls, with the axe lying across one bare brown forearm, might have served an artist as a model for Labour; but the artist into whose studio he had come had no need for such models. At about the same time one of the finest houses in New York would have been disturbed to its very foundations if it were suspected that Mr. Steve Chance wanted for any of the luxuries of the nineteenth century, and yet here were Steve Chance and Ned Corbett, their last dollar invested in a doubtful venture, their razors abandoned, their toilet necessaries reduced to one cake of soap and a towel between two (Cruickshank condemned the habit of washing altogether upon the road), and their whole stock of household goods reduced to two light packs, to be carried mile after mile upon their own strong shoulders.
    keywords: camp; cariboo; chance; claims; colonel; corbett; course; creek; cruickshank; day; dead; dollars; eyes; face; feet; fellow; find; frazer; gold; good; great; half; hand; head; lay; left; life; lilla; look; man; men; moment; ned; ned corbett; new; night; pack; pete; phon; place; rampike; river; roberts; round; snow; steve; steve chance; thought; time; trail; want; way; white; work
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        item: #17 of 22
          id: 46289
      author: Grinnell, George Bird
       title: Jack the Young Canoeman: An Eastern Boy's Voyage in a Chinook Canoe
        date: None
       words: 93753
      flesch: 81
     summary: Said Jack to his companion: We have had lots of surprises on this trip, Hugh, and this camp is one of the greatest of them. The rush of this great mass of water Jack thought enough to frighten one.
    keywords: bear; birds; camp; canoe; country; course; day; deer; fannin; feet; fire; fish; food; goats; good; ground; half; head; hugh; indians; inlet; jack; james; lake; little; look; man; men; morning; mountains; night; north; people; place; point; river; salmon; saw; shore; shot; tell; think; time; water; way; white; work
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        item: #18 of 22
          id: 47253
      author: Rogers, John Godfrey, Sir
       title: Sport in Vancouver and Newfoundland
        date: None
       words: 50064
      flesch: 80
     summary: For pleasure I should choose the early season, up to October 1st; the weather is finer and some fishing is to be had, but for good heads the late season is certainly the best, for all the stags are out in the open during and after the rut. All along he regretted that I had not come in for the October shooting, when, he said, I was bound to have got good heads.
    keywords: big; camp; country; day; fish; fishing; forest; good; ground; half; head; hill; hotel; john; lake; line; men; miles; morning; night; pond; rain; ridge; river; rod; salmon; sea; shot; smith; stag; steve; time; trip; trout; vancouver; water; way; yards
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        item: #19 of 22
          id: 6329
      author: Kermode, Francis
       title: Catalogue of British Columbia Birds
        date: None
       words: 11743
      flesch: 76
     summary: _Dendroica æstiva rubiginosa_ (Pallas). FRANCIS KERMODE, _Curator Provincial Museum_.
    keywords: american; breeds; brooks; cascades; chilliwhack; coast; east; family; fannin; island; linn; mainland; mountains; okanagan; province; queen; resident; sparrow; summer; vancouver; vancouver island; victoria; west; western; winter
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        item: #20 of 22
          id: 6976
      author: Stock, Eugene
       title: Metlakahtla and the North Pacific Mission of the Church Missionary Society
        date: None
       words: 51795
      flesch: 72
     summary: Mr. Duncan, in 1857, gave the following painfully curious description of the medicine men-- The superstitions connected with this fearful system are deeply rooted here, and it is the admitting and initiating of fresh pupils into these arts that employ numbers, and excite and interest all, during the winter months. Mr. Duncan gives the following account of it:-- These feasts are generally connected with the giving away of property.
    keywords: bishop; chief; children; christian; church; coast; columbia; day; duncan; fort; god; good; head; heart; house; indians; jesus; life; lord; man; medicine; men; metlakahtla; mission; missionary; new; number; people; place; prayer; river; school; simpson; time; tribes; tsimshean; victoria; village; visit; way; work; years; young
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        item: #21 of 22
          id: 9459
      author: Carmichael, Alfred
       title: Indian Legends of Vancouver Island
        date: None
       words: 11495
      flesch: 79
     summary: Then all the tribe did honor to Eut-le-ten. Then Nas-nas-shup gathered many sticks of wood and built a fire so blazing hot that none could bear the heat, and turned to Eut-le-ten, Stand in the fire that I may see if you are brave and strong enough to be worthy of her, my daughter.
    keywords: alberni; chief; day; eut; home; house; indian; ish; land; lodge; nas; oolth; sound; tsomass; water; whale
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        item: #22 of 22
          id: 9778
      author: Bindloss, Harold
       title: Vane of the Timberlands
        date: None
       words: 99067
      flesch: 85
     summary: Aren't you getting off the track, Vane asked Carroll. Vane presented Carroll.
    keywords: afterward; believe; broke; carroll; chisholm; companion; day; deal; doubt; evelyn; eyes; face; fact; girl; going; good; half; hand; horsfield; idea; jessy; kind; kitty; left; light; look; mabel; man; matter; men; mind; mrs; nairn; people; place; point; question; room; set; sloop; thing; thought; time; trouble; vancouver; vane; water; way; wind; work
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