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Title: The Cariboo Trail
A Chronicle of the Gold-fields of British Columbia

Author: Agnes C. Laut

Release Date: September 1, 2009 [EBook #29885]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CARIBOO TRAIL ***

Produced by Al Haines

[Frontispiece: The first Legislative Assembly of Vancouver Island

_Back Row_--J. W. M'Kay, J. D. Pemberton, J. Porter (Clerk)
_Front Row_--T. J. Skinner, J. S. Helmcken, M. D., James Yates

After a Photograph]

THE

CARIBOO TRAIL

A Chronicle of the Gold-fields
of British Columbia

BY

AGNES C. LAUT

TORONTO

GLASGOW, BROOK & COMPANY

1916

_Copyright in all Countries subscribing to
the Berne Convention_

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CONTENTS

Page

I. THE 'ARGONAUTS' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
II. THE PROSPECTOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
III. CARIBOO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
IV. THE OVERLANDERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
V. CROSSING THE MOUNTAINS . . . . . . . . . 68
VI. QUESNEL AND KAMLOOPS . . . . . . . . . . 80
VII. LIFE AT THE MINES . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
VIII. THE CARIBOO ROAD . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE . . . . . . . . . . 110
INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

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ILLUSTRATIONS

THE FIRST LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF
VANCOUVER ISLAND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Frontispiece_
After a photograph.

THE CARIBOO COUNTRY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Facing page_ 1
Map by Bartholomew.

SIR JAMES DOUGLAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . " " 10
From a portrait by Savannah.

INDIANS NEAR NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. . . . . . . . . . . . " " 12
From a photograph by Maynard.

IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . " " 28
From a photograph.

A GROUP OF THOMPSON RIVER INDIANS . . . . . . . . . . . " " 36
From a photograph by Maynard.

SIR MATTHEW BAILLIE BEGBIE . . . . . . . . .