A Man of Two Countries

								


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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. The "local color" has, perhaps, not been
squeezed from too many tubes. Types stand out; never individuals.
As types, therefore, the characters of this book weave their story as
the shuttle of time, filled with the woof of hidden purpose and open
deed, runs through the warp of their friendships and enmities.
And with the less attractive strands the shifting harness of place and
circumstance enmeshes a thread of Love's gold.

BOOK I. THE RIVER
BOOK II. THE PRAIRIE
BOOK III. THE STATE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

   BOOK I



   I.    Twisting the Lion's Tail              15



   II.   The Girl on the Fontenelle            30

   BOOK II



   I.    Under the Union Jack                  47



   II.   Hate                                  58



   III.  The Hot Blood of Youth                72



   IV.   The Return to Fort Benton             88

   BOOK III



   I.    Visitors from Helena                 107



   II.   Charlie Blair's Sister               125



   III.  A Man of Two Countries               141



   IV.   The State Republican Convention      155