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Title: The Trail of the Sandhill Stag

Author: Ernest Seton-Thompson

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Language: English

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[Illustration: The Trail of the Sandhill Stag]

[Illustration: "The Track of a Mother Blacktail was suddenly joined by
two Little Ones' Tracks."]

THE TRAIL OF THE SANDHILL STAG
AND 60 DRAWINGS

[Illustration]

BY
ERNEST THOMPSON SETON
[Illustration]
Naturalist to the Government of Manitoba

Author of
Wild Animals I Have Known
Art Anatomy of Animals
Mammals of Manitoba
Birds of Manitoba

Published by Charles Scribner's Sons New York City A.D. 1914

[Illustration]

Copyright, 1899, by
Ernest Seton-Thompson

First
Impression
October
12
1899

Second
Impression
February
16
1900

Third
Impression
December
20
1900

Fourth
Impression
July
16
1901

Fifth
Impression
August
18
1902

Sixth
Impression
October
29
1904

Seventh
Impression
November
30
1908

Eighth
Impression
November
1
1910

Ninth
Impression
April
10
1913

Tenth
Impression
December
10
1913

THE SCRIBNER PRESS

This Book is dedicated to the Old-timers of the Big Plain of Manitoba.

[Illustration]

[Illustration]

To the Reader:

These are the best days of my life.
These are my golden days.

In this Book the designs for title-page, cover, and
general make-up, and also the literary revision, were
done by Mrs. Grace Gallatin Thompson Seton.

[Illustration]

List of full-page Drawings

[Illustration]

"The Track of a Mother Blacktail
was suddenly joined by two Little
Ones' Tracks" frontispiece

The Trail Spring page 14

"Wingless Birds" 22

"Sat down in the Moonlit Snow" 37

"Seven Deer, ... their Leader a