John Tanner: Growing Up a Captive, Part XXXIX
As the war party of Muskegoes and Ojibbeway’s rested at a spring an old warrior made a divination concluding that a large band of Sioux...
John Tanner: Growing Up a Captive, Part XXXVII
While joining in the hunt for Buffalo during the rutting season John described the sound caused by their incessant tramping mixed with...
John Tanner: Growing Up a Captive, Part XXXI
John had hunted with the other members of the family, it took nearly all day but they had literally run down a herd of Elk killing four. ...
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...
Survival in a Northern Wilderness: A Mother's Story--Part XLI
After getting ashore and getting the outboard motors cleaned of sand and the evening meal, they wondered what challenges were to come. ...
Survival in a Northern Wilderness: A Mother's Story--Part XXVIII
It had been four years since Orrah told Wesley that they did not need a team of horses, including harnesses, that he could have purchased...
Survival in a Northern Wilderness: A Mother's Story--Part XXVII
Violet had a proverbial laundry list of things to do before winter set in but Orrah kept pestering her to go out on the trap line with...
Survival in a Northern Wilderness: A Mother's Story--Part XXIV
Always in the later part of February Violets boys and their dad would come off the trap lines to put up ice to use during the upcoming...
Survival in a Northern Wilderness: A Mother's Story--Part XXIII
Dogs were permanent fixtures in Violet's home from the time she eloped by dog sled with Orrah, until her children were grown. Violet's...
