Identifier: rockiesofcanad00wilc (find matches)
Title: The Rockies of Canada;
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Wilcox, Walter Dwight, 1869- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York and London, G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Surrounbei) b*> Burning Zvccb 147 forests, squirrels, finches, and whiskey-jacks oftenshow unusual confidence in man, but this particularinstance was remarkable, because the bird wouldalight on our persons even after it had beenmomentarily though gently detained several timesas a prisoner in my hand. Further investigation showed that it was possibleto get our horses through the fire, which had spentits energy on a large extent of green timber; so afterthree hours travel from camp we came to the burn-ing trees, where the fire was advancing slowly, asthere was a calm. Then came several miles of therecently burned area, now changed to a forest ofblackened sticks, some of which were already fallen,with here and there a column of smoke rising fromsmouldering moss, and everything half concealed ina snowy covering of ashes. At the other edge of thefire there was more danger, and frequently some treewould flash up and send a scorching heat toward us.We were chiefly anxious that the packs s

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