CONTENTS


Page.
Chapter 1. Patriarch's Story 9
An Extinct Race.
The Gay Frenchman.
The Earlier Peoples.
The Montreal Merchants and Men.
The Dusky Riders of the Plain.
The Stately Hudson's Bay Company.

Chapter 2. A Scottish Duel 33

Chapter 3. Across the Stormy Sea 44

Chapter 4. A Winter of Discontent 58

Chapter 5. First Foot on Red River Banks 69

Chapter 6. Three Desperate Years 80

Chapter 7. Fight and Flight 95

Chapter 8. No Surrender 107

Chapter 9. Seven Oaks Massacre 117