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 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...
John Tanner: Growing Up a Captive, Part XX
They were all hungry; the Old Woman sent John to seek help, a difficult trek, when he arrived at the Trader House they immediately knew...
