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On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland By: H. L. (Harry Lincoln) Sayler (1863-) |
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ON THE EDGE OF THE ARCTIC or An Aeroplane in Snowland by ASHTON LAMAR Illustrated by Norman P. Hall [Illustration: The Gitchie Manitou ready for its first flight in the
Far North.] The Reilly & Britton Co.
Chicago Copyright, 1913
by
The Reilly & Britton Co.
All Rights Reserved ON THE EDGE OF THE ARCTIC
CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I Introducing An Airship And Count Zept 9 II A Curious Stranger Learns the Object of the
Gitchie Manitou 27 III Colonel Howell Makes a Novel Proposal 42 IV Colonel Howell Discovers an Old Friend in Jack Zept 58 V Negotiating and Outfitting 72 VI The Expedition Strikes a Snag in Edmonton 86 VII A Tempestuous Voyage to Athabasca Landing 100 VIII Count Zept Makes Himself Known at the Landing 114 IX The Song of the Voyageur 128 X Paul Awakens to the Situation 142 XI Preparing Camp for Winter 155 XII Breasting a Blizzard in an Airship 169 XIII In the Land of Caribou, Moose and Musk Ox 187 XIV In the Cabin of the Paralyzed Indian 201 XV A Letter Goes Wrong 217 XVI Roy Conducts a Hunt 232 XVII The Gitchie Manitou Wins a Race 248
ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE The Gitchie Manitou ready for its first flight in the
Far North. Frontispiece "I've an idea and I got it the minute I saw your
aeroplane to day." 51 "Don't shoot," he protested. "What's the use?" 181 "They must have seen us," panted Roy as he and Norman
advanced. 205
ON THE EDGE OF THE ARCTIC
OR
AN AEROPLANE IN SNOWLAND CHAPTER I INTRODUCING AN AIRSHIP AND COUNT ZEPT
This story, which is an account of the peculiar and marvelous adventures
by which two Canadian boys Norman Grant and Roy Moulton achieved a
sudden fame in the Arctic wilderness of the great Northwest, had its
beginning in the thriving city of Calgary. The exact time was the big day
of the celebrated "Stampede," Calgary's famous civic celebration. It was
in July and among the many events that had drawn thousands of people to
the new Northwestern metropolis, Norman and Roy were on the program as
aviators and exhibitors of their new aeroplane. These young men were born in Calgary and had lived eighteen years in that
city. Since this almost covered the period of Calgary's growth from a
trading post to a modern city, each young man had a knowledge of the
wilderness and its romance that other boys could get only from history.
This meant that they knew plainsmen, scouts, ranchmen, cowboys, hunters,
trappers, and even Indians as personal friends. It meant also that they
had a real knowledge of the prairies, the woods and even of the
mountains. Their knowledge of these men and the land in which they lived
was personal and did not come from the fanciful narratives of books of
adventure. Each boy was the son of a mechanic, men who had come into the Province of
Alberta with the first railroads. And each boy was educated in all that a
grammar school affords. The picturesque romance of the Northwest having
been a part of the life of each, it might have been supposed that the
ambitions of the two lads would have run toward mining or ranch life or
even toward the inviting work of hunters or trappers. To the gratification of their fathers, however, they fell in with the
modern movement and turned toward mechanics... Continue reading book >>
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