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JACK, THE YOUNG EXPLORER
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“THE TENT WAS SHIVERING AND SHAKING AND FROM IT EMERGEDGROANS AND GROWLS.”—Page 130
JACK
THE YOUNG EXPLORER
A Boy’s Experiences in the
Unknown Northwest
BY
GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL
Author of “Jack in the Rockies,” “Jack the Young Ranchman,”
“Jack Among the Indians,” “Pawnee Hero Stories,”
“Jack the Young Trapper,” etc.
NEW YORK
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1908, by
Frederick A. Stokes Company
September, 1908
Eighth Printing
Printed in the United States of America
FOREWORD
FOR untold ages the mountain goats had clambered undisturbed along theface of the steep precipices that overhang the St Mary’s River and SwiftCurrent. Over the slide rock fallen from their cliffs the wild sheep hadbeaten out paths and trails zigzagging from the valley below to theheights above. On the lower wooded slopes the elk browsed in spring andfall, climbing high above the timber at the season when the flies werebad, and again when snows fell at the approach of winter, working theirway down toward the lower lands and the foothills of the prairie. In thethick swamps and morasses of the river bottom the moose dwelt, sometimesclambering up toward the heights, but more often escaping the summerflies by burying their huge bodies beneath the waters of the lakes, orperhaps by wallowing in some great bog, from which they emerged coveredwith black mud which, drying, formed a coating that protected them.Everywhere through the valleys, on the hillsides, far up on the baldknolls, and even higher still, where the sheep and goats delighted toclimb, the buffalo of the mountains—called by old mountaineers bison,to dis