John Tanner: Growing up a Captive, Part XIX
John Tanners family’s prospects were so discouraging that they lightened some of their baggage in order to make their journey more...
John Tanner: Growing up a Captive, Part XVII
John Tanner's family has decided to leave the Red River area and head to Lake Huron. They felt very good about their prospects, they had...
John Tanner: Growing up a Captive, Part XVI
John Tanners family was still suffering from hunger, and it compelled them to move and after they had eaten their portion of a bear they...
John Tanner: Growing Up a Captive, Part XV
The Indians had a road from Lake of the Woods to Red River which the white men never followed. John Tanner’s family had camped next to a...
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 XIII
The Traders came according to their expectations and they had a good many Beaver skins, John Tanner’s family bought a bark canoe, a keg...
John Tanner: Growing Up a Captive, Part XII
John’s family decided to return to the Lake Huron area, times of revelry after a long winter saw a number of them trade winter hides for...
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 X
John’s family paddled up the Red River and in two days came to the mouth of the Assiniboine River where they found great numbers of...
John Tanner: Growing Up a Captive, Part IX
John was rising in the estimation of the Indians and becoming one of them but silently intended at some future time to return and live...
