_The Spirit of Unselfishness. The ideals of hospitality, sociability, geniality, generosity, and neighborly helpfulness._ _Selfishness, envy and suspicion, an ill disposition to blame anyone but ourselves for every wrong; a passing frown of discouragement and complaint, sometimes with fair excuse; these you may find in the West, as you may strike a misty morning on the sunny plain or a hard frost on the balmy coast; but they are foreign to the Spirit of the West._ _Without that Spirit, though the land should rise to gorgeous heights of moneyed wealth by perfecting its science of material production and commercial organization, the West would be poor and mean, a body without a soul._ _Therefore, of all the proud ambitions of the West, the proudest is to keep that noble Spirit strong._ _The Spirit has hours of weakness, but it soon revives, to proclaim with the strength of a giant refreshed—_ _“In the fell clutch of circumstance_ _I have not winced nor cried aloud._ _Under the bludgeonings of chance_ _My head is bloody, but unbowed._ _“It matters not how strait the gate,_ _How charged with punishment the scroll._ _I am the master of my fate,_ _I am the captain of my soul.”_ THE END I N D E X Adventures, life full of them, 2. Agriculture, 54; ranching, 127; mixed farming, 129; fruit, 164; irrigation, 169; bees, 170; improving livestock, 171, 177; “We have to Learn,” 174; enormous production, 178; need of co-operation, 178, 183; “semi-tropical,” 179; the small farmer, 181; grain growing and dairying, 183, 191. Air patrol, 166. Animal and plant life: pre-historic, 4; modern, 14, 15, 131, 197; beaver, 35; his achievements and value, 35, 192, 193; buffalo, 18, 20, 45, 48, 54, 129; wholesale slaughter, 61; collecting his bones, 127; present increase, 192; caribou, 46, 187; coyote and antelope, 17, 131; dogs, 10, 20; bred for wool, 72; horses, 19, 23; maize 11; trees, 140; far north, 188. Arctic Ocean: Hearne’s arrival, 47; Mackenzie’s, 50. British brotherhood of nations, 28, 156, 200. British justice, 79, 137. British Navy’s task, 160. Calgary, 105, 129, 169. Climates, 169, 175, 179. Coats, Capt., 47, 58, 85. Columbia River, 50. Coppermine River, 46. Dominion formed, 88; width North to South, 189.