John Tanner: Growing Up a Captive, Part XXX
The Trader brought a large quantity of rum and encamped a few miles from his house so if the Indians over indulged any trouble would not...
John Tanner: Growing Up a Captive, Part XXIX
Spring arrived and John and his family traveled towards the old sugar camp, John personally disliked being with the Indians in this,...
John Tanner: Growing Up a Captive, Part XXVIII
John had taken part in a hastily proposed but successful beaver hunt that ended up distant from the trading post and the result was a...
John Tanner: Growing Up a Captive, Part XXVII
John with his brother and his wife started to return home, they got to the village where they had tried to kill his horse. They slept...
John Tanner: Crowing Up a Captive, Part XXVI
Sugar season arrived, the trees were called by the whites “River Maple,” they were large but scattered and for this reason they made two...
John Tanner: Growing Up a Captive, Part XXV
John Tanner described him as “a very small old man” he had joined them in the course of the Winter and when food became scarce he set out...
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 XXIII
In the course of the Fall John had killed a good many beaver and other animals and his family had enough to supply all their wants. One...
John Tanner: Growing up a Captive, Part XXII
It was winter and as it advanced it continually became colder. John Tanner hunted for a Trader called by the Indians Aneeb which meant...
John Tanner: Growing Up a Captive, Part XXI
John Tanner used to take with hook and line a great number of fish from the River called Kocheche-se-bee (Source River) which fed Rainy...
