The painter Arthur Heming spent many seasons in the northern Canadian forest, and here he follows Oo-koo-hoo, an Ojibwa hunter, through a full year of trapping, travel and trading. York boats shoot the rapids, fur-runners bid against the posts, and lynx, bear and wolf are tracked on five-foot snowshoes across the winter woods.
A vivid first-hand record of the fur country around 1900, with the author’s own pictures; its view of Ojibwa life is an outsider’s. Download the free EPUB.