item: #1 of 26 id: 13518 author: Franklin, John title: The Journey to the Polar Sea date: None words: 176358 flesch: 63 summary: Only one of them was disposed to extend his engagement and proceed beyond the Athabasca Lake and, as there was much uncertainty whether the remaining three could get from the Athabasca to York Factory sufficiently early to secure them a passage in the next Hudson's Bay ship, I resolved not to take them forward unless Dr. Richardson and Mr. Hood should fail in procuring other men from these establishments next spring, but to despatch them down to York to bring up our stores to this place: after which they might return to the coast in time to secure their passage in the first ship. When the conversation was resumed the chief renewed his solicitations for goods, but it was now too palpable to be mistaken that he aimed at getting everything he possibly could and leaving us without the means of making any presents to the Esquimaux or other Indians we might meet. keywords: akaitcho; arrival; banks; bay; canoes; coast; cold; company; copper; copper indians; country; course; day; days; deer; degrees; distance; east; encampment; enterprise; esquimaux; evening; feet; fire; fish; following; fort; good; half; hills; hood; house; hunters; ice; indians; island; journey; lake; left; man; meat; men; miles; minutes; morning; night; north; party; place; point; portage; present; provision; rapid; return; richardson; river; sea; seconds; set; shore; slave lake; snow; south; state; stream; tent; time; water; weather; west; white; wind; winter; wood cache: 13518.txt plain text: 13518.txt item: #2 of 26 id: 18149 author: White, Stewart Edward title: Conjuror's House: A Romance of the Free Forest date: None words: 36744 flesch: 86 summary: You knew many men of many lands. He would be forced first of all to seek out and kill the men detailed to shadow him--a toy revolver against rifles; white man against trained savages. keywords: albret; canoe; company; country; day; door; eyes; face; factor; father; galen; girl; good; half; hand; head; house; know; life; long; longue; love; man; men; moment; ned; right; river; room; story; stranger; things; time; trader; trent; virginia; voice; way; white cache: 18149.txt plain text: 18149.txt item: #3 of 26 id: 18979 author: Franklin, John title: Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 1 date: None words: 85506 flesch: 62 summary: Only one of them was disposed to extend his engagement, and proceed beyond the Athabasca Lake; and, as there was much uncertainty whether the remaining three could get from the Athabasca to York Factory sufficiently early to secure them a passage in the next Hudson's Bay ship, I resolved not to take them forward, unless Dr. Richardson and Mr. Hood should fail in procuring other men from these establishments next spring, but to despatch them down to York to bring up our stores to this place: after which they might return to the coast in time to secure their passage in the first ship. Several Indians, who lay on the outside of the sweating-house as spectators, seemed to regard the proceedings with very little awe, and were extremely free in the remarks and jokes they passed upon the condition of the sweaters, and even of Kepoochikawn himself. keywords: banks; bay; canoes; chipewyan; company; copper; country; course; crees; cumberland; day; days; deer; distance; evening; feet; fire; fish; following; fort; good; half; house; hudson; hunters; ice; indians; island; journey; lake; meat; men; miles; moose; morning; night; north; original; party; place; portage; post; provision; river; shore; snow; time; traders; water; weather; west; wind; winter; women; wood cache: 18979.txt plain text: 18979.txt item: #4 of 26 id: 18985 author: Franklin, John title: Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 2 date: None words: 91559 flesch: 65 summary: In the afternoon the weather cleared up, and several men went hunting, but were unsuccessful. Belanger arrived alone; he had walked constantly for the last six-and-thirty hours, leaving his Indian companions encamped at the last woods, they being unwilling to accompany him across the barren grounds during the storm that had prevailed for several days, and blew with unusual violence on the morning of his arrival. keywords: akaitcho; canoes; coast; copper; country; course; day; days; deer; distance; encampment; enterprise; esquimaux; evening; feet; fire; fort; hepburn; hood; house; hunters; ice; indians; journey; lake; left; meat; men; miles; morning; night; north; party; place; point; provision; return; river; sea; set; snow; time; water; weather; wind; wood cache: 18985.txt plain text: 18985.txt item: #5 of 26 id: 26905 author: Parker, Gilbert title: Northern Lights date: None words: 115686 flesch: 88 summary: The faces of old men brightened when they saw her, and one or two ancient figures who, for years, had been seldom seen at social functions now came when they knew she was to be present. White men had left their Indian wives, but had come back again, and forever renounced the life of their own nations, and become great chiefs, teaching useful things to their adopted people, bringing up their children as tribesmen--bringing up their children! keywords: away; black; boy; child; coming; day; days; dollars; door; eyes; face; father; feet; fire; george; girl; good; grassette; half; hand; head; heart; home; hour; house; indian; jim; jopp; know; life; like; little; long; look; man; men; mind; mitiahwe; moment; morrow; mother; new; night; north; o'ryan; people; river; room; round; save; saw; sun; thing; thought; time; voice; want; west; white; wife; woman; words; world; years cache: 26905.txt plain text: 26905.txt item: #6 of 26 id: 28688 author: MacGregor, Mary Esther Miller title: The Silver Maple date: None words: 75248 flesch: 79 summary: And is your name just Scotty? Yes! cried Scotty, very emphatically, Scotty MacDonald. Scotty MacDonald, how can you say such a mean thing? Scotty looked up with a sudden desperate boldness. keywords: air; big; boy; boys; callum; captain; come; coming; dan; day; days; door; eyes; face; feet; fire; forest; friend; girl; good; granny; hamish; hand; head; heart; herbert; home; house; isabel; jimmie; jist; kirsty; lauchie; life; look; macdonald; malcolm; man; master; minister; moment; monteith; mother; murphy; nancy; night; oro; place; school; scotty; store; thompson; time; voice; way; weaver; wife; wild; young cache: 28688.txt plain text: 28688.txt item: #7 of 26 id: 43622 author: None title: The Beaver, Vol. 1, No. 04, January 1921 date: None words: 21119 flesch: 75 summary: After the hand-shaking was over, Mr. M., the Post Manager, drew Mr. R. aside and asked if he believed in ghosts. Mr. R. laughed and said he didn't believe in any kind of spirits, except the kind they used to have at Christmas in the old days, but wanted to know what the joke was. keywords: bay; beaver; business; buyer; canada; company; day; department; district; fort; fur; general; h.b.c; hudson; illustration; island; land; manager; men; miles; miss; new; post; river; service; staff; store; time; vancouver; veysey; water; way; winnipeg; years; | | cache: 43622.txt plain text: 43622.txt item: #8 of 26 id: 46574 author: Hudson's Bay Company title: The Beaver, Vol. 1, No. 10, July, 1921 date: None words: 21202 flesch: 75 summary: Mr. Porte, manager_; _Mr. Stanhope, manager, furniture department_; _Mr. Marten, manager, draperies_; _Mrs. Grew, librarian_; _Mr. Stewart, manager, ladies' shoes_; _Miss McLaren, manageress, whitewear_; _Miss Grimason, manageress, ready-to-wear_; _Mr. Wilkinson, manager, delivery_; _Mr. Horne, accountant_; _Mr. McBain, traffic manager_. The Company has engaged_ twelve apprentice clerks in Scotland for service at H.B.C. fur trade posts in northern Canada. keywords: article; bay; buffalo; business; chief; clerk; company; country; day; department; district; factor; fort; fur; george; goods; h.b.c; house; hudson; illustration; indians; john; june; lake; manager; miles; miss; mountains; new; north; outfit; pelly; post; river; season; store; summer; time; trader; winter; years; york cache: 46574.txt plain text: 46574.txt item: #9 of 26 id: 46935 author: Hudson's Bay Company title: The Beaver, Vol. 1, No. 05, February, 1921 date: None words: 21697 flesch: 76 summary: Edmonton | 909.90 | $200.70 ===================================================================== TABLE 3 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Load (lbs.) A Journal of Progress_ Copyright, 1921, by the Hudson's Bay Company Address all communications to Editor, THE BEAVER, York and Main Streets, Winnipeg, Canada ======================================= Vol. keywords: = =; = h.b.c; age; bay; beaver; canada =; company; day; department; fort; fur; good; house; hudson; illustration; land; lbs; little; man; men; miles; miss; months; montreal |; mrs; new; night; post; river; staff; store; time; trade; vancouver; west; winnipeg; work; years; | +; | calgary; | edmonton; | | cache: 46935.txt plain text: 46935.txt item: #10 of 26 id: 6174 author: Parker, Gilbert title: Pierre and His People: Tales of the Far North. Volume 1. date: None words: 20754 flesch: 85 summary: Plans for coming days were talked of, and the laughter of many voices filled the house. When I started Pretty Pierre on his travels, I did not know--nor did he --how far or wide his adventurers and experiences would run. keywords: aleck; christmas; day; eyes; face; father; fones; god; good; gregory; hand; life; love; malbrouck; man; moose; mother; night; people; pierre; pretty; sergeant; time; way cache: 6174.txt plain text: 6174.txt item: #11 of 26 id: 6175 author: Parker, Gilbert title: Pierre and His People: Tales of the Far North. Volume 2. date: None words: 20425 flesch: 90 summary: The hat and cloak are those of Sergeant Tom, but the voice is that of Jen Galbraith. This Rider of the Plains was Sergeant Thomas Gellatly, familiarly known as Sergeant Tom. keywords: eyes; father; galbraith; gellatly; good; hammer; hand; horse; jen; little; man; night; pierre; prairie; pretty; sergeant; sergeant tom; tom; val cache: 6175.txt plain text: 6175.txt item: #12 of 26 id: 6176 author: Parker, Gilbert title: Pierre and His People: Tales of the Far North. Volume 3. date: None words: 18447 flesch: 87 summary: I should have thought-- The Honourable interrupted: To tell you that you are Sir Duke Lawless. Shon, old fellow, come here, said Sir Duke Lawless. keywords: day; duke; eyes; face; hand; honourable; indian; lawless; life; man; men; night; pierre; shon; sir; snow; stone; time; trafford; valley cache: 6176.txt plain text: 6176.txt item: #13 of 26 id: 6177 author: Parker, Gilbert title: Pierre and His People: Tales of the Far North. Volume 4. date: None words: 18057 flesch: 91 summary: Yes, he continued, and I know that you prefer Shon McGann to Pretty Pierre. It was at this point that Shon McGann entered, looked round, nodded to all, and then came forward to the table where Pretty Pierre sat. keywords: door; eyes; face; fort; hand; lazenby; like; look; man; master; mcgann; men; night; pierre; shon; things; wife; woman cache: 6177.txt plain text: 6177.txt item: #14 of 26 id: 6178 author: Parker, Gilbert title: Pierre and His People: Tales of the Far North. Volume 5. date: None words: 16448 flesch: 90 summary: Irene in Quebec, were left to guard the place of treasure, until, to the sound of the laughing spring, there should come many men and much machinery, and the sinking of shafts in the earth, and the making, of riches. But St. Jean was far from the ways of settlement, and there was little food and only one hut, and many things must be done for the Rose Tree Mine in the places where men sell their souls for money; and Antoine and Angelique, French peasants from the parish of Ste. keywords: antoine; blanche; corraine; eyes; face; father; good; hand; head; heart; man; pierre; priest; shon; words cache: 6178.txt plain text: 6178.txt item: #15 of 26 id: 6180 author: Parker, Gilbert title: A Romany of the Snows, vol. 1 Being a Continuation of the Personal Histories of "Pierre and His People" and the Last Existing Records of Pretty Pierre date: None words: 20980 flesch: 90 summary: Pierre eyed Macavoy--measured him, as it were, for what he was worth. It can hardly be said that there were two series of Pierre stories. keywords: face; fort; giant; girl; half; hand; head; hilton; ida; indians; king; life; little; macavoy; man; men; pierre; time; wid; wife; woman; word cache: 6180.txt plain text: 6180.txt item: #16 of 26 id: 6181 author: Parker, Gilbert title: A Romany of the Snows, vol. 2 Being a Continuation of the Personal Histories of "Pierre and His People" and the Last Existing Records of Pretty Pierre date: None words: 19071 flesch: 94 summary: Or is it that you think old men are cowards? The devil's games: cards and law-breaking; and you sneer at men who try to bring lost sheep into the fold. keywords: child; eyes; face; father; girl; good; hand; king; life; malachi; man; men; pierre; slave; time; wife; woman cache: 6181.txt plain text: 6181.txt item: #17 of 26 id: 6182 author: Parker, Gilbert title: A Romany of the Snows, vol. 3 Being a Continuation of the Personal Histories of "Pierre and His People" and the Last Existing Records of Pretty Pierre date: None words: 20412 flesch: 92 summary: 'Well, well,' he answered, with a severe look, 'our Company has need of great men for hard tasks.' And no one--is coming? There are men making for the shore, and the fires are burning, but no one is--coming this way. . . . keywords: brydon; door; eyes; face; father; fingall; fort; good; hand; heart; house; life; man; men; pierre; river; saw; time; voice cache: 6182.txt plain text: 6182.txt item: #18 of 26 id: 6183 author: Parker, Gilbert title: A Romany of the Snows, vol. 4 Being a Continuation of the Personal Histories of "Pierre and His People" and the Last Existing Records of Pretty Pierre date: None words: 22587 flesch: 94 summary: You are good men. When Gaspard and Pierre looked each other in the eyes they knew that one word between them was as a hundred with other men. keywords: bay; child; day; eyes; fire; gaspard; good; hand; heart; john; lawless; man; north; pierre; pourcette; shon; sun; thing; time cache: 6183.txt plain text: 6183.txt item: #19 of 26 id: 6184 author: Parker, Gilbert title: A Romany of the Snows, vol. 5 Being a Continuation of the Personal Histories of "Pierre and His People" and the Last Existing Records of Pretty Pierre date: None words: 16532 flesch: 93 summary: Their names were much more notorious than sweet; and yet in Quebec men laughed as they shrugged their shoulders at them; for as many jovial things as evil were told of Tarboe. When it became known that a dignitary of the Church had been given a case of splendid wine, which had come in a roundabout way to him, men waked in the night and laughed, to the annoyance of their wives; for the same dignitary had preached a powerful sermon against smugglers and the receivers of stolen goods. keywords: bissonnette; eyes; girl; gobal; good; halby; joan; lafarge; law; man; martin; men; pierre; tarboe; thing; throng cache: 6184.txt plain text: 6184.txt item: #20 of 26 id: 6186 author: Parker, Gilbert title: Northern Lights, Volume 1. date: None words: 24765 flesch: 91 summary: I'm for goin' North, far up, where these two-dollar-a-day and hash-and-clothes people ain't come yet. White men had left their Indian wives, but had come back again, and for ever renounced the life of their own nations, and become great chiefs, teaching useful things to their adopted people, bringing up their children as tribesmen--bringing up their children! keywords: clint; dingan; door; eyes; face; fire; girl; good; greevy; hand; heart; life; lodge; man; mitiahwe; night; sinnet; time; way; west; white; woman cache: 6186.txt plain text: 6186.txt item: #21 of 26 id: 6187 author: Parker, Gilbert title: Northern Lights, Volume 2. date: None words: 29438 flesch: 88 summary: Never in the history of white men had these rapids been ridden at nighttime. The white women of Portage la Drome were too blind, too prejudiced, to see all that she really was, and admiring white men could do little, for Pauline would have nothing to do with them till the women met her absolutely as an equal; and from the other halfbreeds, who intermarried with each other and were content to take a lower place than the pure whites, she held aloof, save when any of them was ill or in trouble. keywords: bindon; day; eyes; face; father; girl; good; hands; head; heart; indian; jim; life; long; man; men; morrow; mother; people; sally; way; white; woman; world; years cache: 6187.txt plain text: 6187.txt item: #22 of 26 id: 6188 author: Parker, Gilbert title: Northern Lights, Volume 3. date: None words: 18410 flesch: 86 summary: That's it, dear old man. Where this man had gone none other had been of white men from the Western lands, though from across the wide Pacific, from the Eastern world, adventurers and exiles had once visited what is now known as the Yukon Valley. keywords: andy; aunt; black; boy; cassy; eyes; face; george; grassette; kate; life; little; man; sheriff; voice; woman; years cache: 6188.txt plain text: 6188.txt item: #23 of 26 id: 6189 author: Parker, Gilbert title: Northern Lights, Volume 4. date: None words: 25314 flesch: 83 summary: Other men had flattered her vanity, had given her a sense of power, had made her understand her possibilities, but nothing more--nothing of what Varley brought with him. But at last came dark days. keywords: day; eyes; face; father; finden; good; heart; jansen; jopp; know; life; like; man; o'ryan; rufus; saw; silver; tassel; terry; tim; time; varley; voice; years cache: 6189.txt plain text: 6189.txt item: #24 of 26 id: 6190 author: Parker, Gilbert title: Northern Lights, Volume 5. date: None words: 18300 flesch: 91 summary: Men were losing their heads; there was an element of irresponsibility in the new outbreak likely to breed some violent act, which every man of them would lament when sober again. Secret, evilly wise and inhuman, he looked a being apart, whom men might seek for help in dark purposes. keywords: day; dollars; dupont; eyes; face; foyle; girl; goatry; halbeck; hand; life; lygon; man; money; night; rawley; voice; years cache: 6190.txt plain text: 6190.txt item: #25 of 26 id: 6818 author: Seton, Ernest Thompson title: The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake date: None words: 67213 flesch: 82 summary: In attempting to analyse this I was confronted by the fact that among themselves they are kind and hospitable, and at length discovered that their attitude toward us is founded on the ideas that all white men are very rich, that the Indian has made them so by allowing them to come into this country, that the Indian is very poor because he never was properly compensated, and that therefore all he can get out of said white man is much less than the white man owes him. The mania for killing that is seen in many white men is evidently a relic of savagery, for all of these Indians and half-breeds are full of it. keywords: away; bay; billy; buffalo; camp; camped; canoe; caribou; chapter; chipewyan; company; country; day; days; dogs; feet; fish; food; foot; fort; good; ground; half; high; hour; indian; island; lake; land; left; life; little; long; lynx; man; meat; men; miles; moose; morning; new; night; north; open; place; point; preble; river; saw; set; shore; smith; things; thought; time; water; weeso; white; wind; winter; woods; yards; years cache: 6818.txt plain text: 6818.txt item: #26 of 26 id: 910 author: London, Jack title: White Fang date: None words: 73623 flesch: 88 summary: Scott asked, nudging White Fang with his foot. His fangs be white, and White Fang shall be his name. keywords: beauty; beaver; bill; body; camp; cub; day; dogs; eyes; fear; feet; fire; gods; grey; hand; head; henry; life; like; lip; little; man; master; matt; meat; men; moment; mother; pack; right; scott; sled; smith; snow; teeth; things; time; way; white fang; wild; wolf; world cache: 910.txt plain text: 910.txt