John Tanner: Growing Up a Captive, Part XXIV
Leaves were out on the trees, the bark peeled and John was killing Sturgeon in the rivers. It didn’t last, there came a snow more than...
John Tanner: Growing up a Captive, Part XIV
The night became very cold and stormy and the Buffalo came in to take shelter in the woods where John Tanner and family had their camp....
John Tanner: Growing Up a Captive, Part XI
John remembered the old woman’s recantations and dreams about seeing a meadow and a bear being harvested. Without mentioning it to anyone...
John Tanner: Growing Up a Captive, Part VIII
The winter weather became severe and they began to grow poor, John was thirteen and his brother seventeen, game was not plentiful, they...
John Tanner: Growing up a Captive, Part V
John Tanner was a captive, the men were often drunk and whenever that was so John learned to run and hide in the woods and dared not...
John Tanner: Growing Up a Captive, Part IV
In the Fall the corn was gathered and disposed of in Ca-ches where they hid it for winter and afterwards went to hunt. John accompanied...
John Tanner: Growing Up a Captive, Part III
The Indians paddled on, it was about mid-day when they landed in a wooded area, they sought out a large hollow log open at one end into...
The Life of Jeremiah Johnston: Part XI
It was Thursday July 21, 1898 when Missionary/newspaper reporter Rodgers left the Sault Rapids on the Kenora at 8:00 AM. He described the...
The Life of Jeremiah Johnston: Part X
It was Thursday July 20, 1898, described by Missionary Rodgers as a most beautiful morning after a rain. The atmosphere was very clear,...
The Life of Jeremiah Johnston: Part IX
Missionary, traveler, and newspaper reporter Mr. Rodgers tried fishing in the early afternoon of July 19, 1898 from the shore of The...
