[Cover Illustration] BY THE SAME AUTHOR THE NEW WORLD FAIRY BOOK Canadian Legends and Tales of Imagination, Red and White. Sixth Edition. THE STORY OF CANADA In the Story of the Empire Series. Third Edition. NEW CANADA AND THE NEW CANADIANS Second Edition. PROFESSOR BLACKIE, HIS SAYINGS AND DOINGS By his Nephew. Second Edition. OLD HIGHLAND DAYS Life of Dr. John Kennedy. [Illustration: _Manitoba_ _Saskatchewan_ _Alberta_ _British Columbia_ PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS OF THE WEST] THE BOOK OF THE WEST _By_ HOWARD ANGUS KENNEDY _The Story of Western Canada, its Birth and_ _Early Adventures, its Youthful Combats,_ _its Peaceful Settlement, its Great_ _Transformation, and its_ _Present Ways._ [Illustration] THE RYERSON PRESS TORONTO ‾Copyright, Canada, 1925, by‾ THE RYERSON PRESS _THIS BOOK_ _IS WRITTEN FOR_ ALL LOVERS OF THE WEST WHO ARE NOT TOO YOUNG TO THINK OR TOO OLD TO LEARN _Study to be quiet and to do your own_ _business, and work with your own hands,_ _that you may act honestly to others and_ _lack nothing yourselves._ _—PAUL THE APOSTLE_ CONTENTS ————— PAGE A HILL-TOP ADVENTURE. FOREWORD 1 THE OLD TIMES I. ADVENTURES WITHOUT A MAN 4    _Giant Lizards, page 5. Birth of the Mountains, 7. Ice Age, 7. Rhinoceros and Mastodon, 8. A Continent Waiting for Man, 8._ II. THE INDIAN BY HIMSELF 9    _First Arrivals from Asia, 9. Spreading South and East, 11. Corn Found, 11. Gardening Begins, 12. Wanderings of Northern Indians, 13. Prairie Left to the Last, 14. Life and Death, 15. The Mound Builders, 16. The First Plainsmen, 17. Buffalo Hunting Starts, 18. Blackfoot and Cree come out of the Woods, 19. Life in a Hunting Tribe, 20._