The Demon Trapper of Umbagog: A Thrilling Tale of the Maine ForestsThompson, Daniel P. (Daniel Pierce)
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The Demon Trapper of Umbagog: A Thrilling Tale of the Maine Forests
Thompson, Daniel P. (Daniel Pierce)
Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction; Maine -- Fiction; Trappers -- Fiction
CHAPTER VIII. 87
Jaunt of Claud and Phillips over the Rapids to the next Great Lake,
for Deer-hunting and Trout-catching.--Rescue of Fluella, the Indian
Chief’s Daughter, from Drowning in the Rapids.--Her
remarkable Character for Intellect and Beauty
CHAPTER IX. 108
The Logging Bee.--The introduction of a New Character in Comical
Codman, the Trapper.--The Woodmen’s Banquet.--The
forming of the Trapping and Hunting Company, to start on an
Expedition to the Upper Lakes
CHAPTER X. 124
Developments of the dark and designing character of Gaut
Gurley.--Tomah, the college-learned Indian
CHAPTER XI. 137
Mrs. Elwood’s Bodings, on account of the connection of her Husband
and Son with Gaut and his Daughter.--Her Interview with
Fluella.--Claud’s Interview with Fluella and her Father, the
Chief.--The Chief’s History of his Tribe
CHAPTER XII. 154
Adventures of the Trappers the first day of their Expedition up the
Lakes.--Bear-hunt, Trout-catching, etc.--Introduction of Carvil,
an amateur Hunter from the Green Mountains
CHAPTER XIII. 175
The Trappers’ Central Camp on the Maguntic Lake.--Three
Stories of most remarkable Adventures in the Woods, told at the
Camp-fire by three Hunters and Trappers
CHAPTER XIV. 200
The Voyage to Oquossak, the farthest large Lake.--The stationing
of the Trappers at different points on the Lake.--The appointment
of Gaut as Keeper of the Central Camp, on the Lake below.--The
Results of their Fall’s Operations, and Preparations to return
Home
CHAPTER XV. 211
The Trappers overtaken by a terrible Snow-storm.--Their Suffering
before reaching Central Camp.--The discovery that this Camp
had been Burnt, and Robbed of their whole Stock of Furs.--Their
Providential Escape from Death
CHAPTER XVI. 235
The Legal Prosecution to Recover their Furs, or punish Gaut, the
supposed Criminal.--The unsatisfactory Result, and Gaut’s dark
menaces of Revenge
CHAPTER XVII. 246
Gaut’s Efforts to get the old Company off into the Forest, on a
Spring Expedition.--All refuse but Elwood and Son, who conclude
to go.--Love Entanglements, and the boding Fears of Mrs. Elwood
CHAPTER XVIII. 260
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