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Title: A Man of Two Countries

Author: Alice Harriman

Illustrator: C. M. Dowling

Release Date: February 14, 2009 [EBook #28070]

Language: English

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A MAN OF TWO COUNTRIES

A MAN _of_ TWO
COUNTRIES

BY
ALICE HARRIMAN

Author of SONGS O' THE SOUND, CHAPERONING ADRIENNE
THROUGH THE YELLOWSTONE, SONGS O'
THE OLYMPICS, etc.

Chapter Headings by
C. M. DOWLING

1910
THE ALICE HARRIMAN COMPANY
NEW YORK & SEATTLE

COPYRIGHT 1910, BY
THE ALICE HARRIMAN COMPANY
All rights reserved

PRINTED BY
THE PREMIER PRESS
NEW YORK
U. S. A.

TO THE READER

Prior to the days of the cowboy and the range, the settler and
irrigation, the State and the Province, an ebb and flow of Indians,
traders, trappers, wolfers, buffalo-hunters, whiskey smugglers,
missionaries, prospectors, United States soldiery and newly organized
North West Mounted Police crossed and recrossed the international
boundary between the American Northwest and what was then known as the
"Whoop Up Country." This heterogeneous flotsam and jetsam held some of
the material from which Montana evolved its later statehood.

To one who came to know and to love the region after the surging tide
had exterminated the buffalo and worse than exterminated the Indian,--to
one who appreciates the limitless possibilities of the splendid
Commonwealth of Montana on the one side and the great Province of
Alberta on the other of that invisible line which now draws together
instead of separating men of a common tongue, this period seems
tremendously interesting. T