THE GOLD ROCK OF THE CHIPPEWA BY D. LANGE ILLUSTRATED BY FRANK T. MERRILL BOSTON LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO. FOREWORD Robert Louis Stevenson, in one of his essays on the art of writing, says in substance that one of the methods of telling a story is to choose a background and then build in harmony with the landscape selected. In The Gold Rock of the Chippewa the writer has followed this method. The story opens in 1775, a dozen years after the Great Lakes region had been ceded by France to England. But it does not attempt to tell of the great war in which Wolfe and Montcalm gave their lives for their countries. It might be called “The Robinson Crusoe of Lake Superior,” as the events of the whole story take place among the rocky wooded hills, on the cold streams, the clear lakes, the wild islands, and on the deep blue waters of “Gitche Gumee,” the largest and most beautiful of the great inland seas of North America. D. Lange. St. Paul, Minnesota, August, 1925. CONTENTS PAGE I. The Council 11 II. Ganawa Speaks 17 III. Gitche Gumee 23 IV. Vague News 34 V. The White Boy Learns 45 VI. A Spooky Camp 54 VII. A Wolf 61 VIII. Tawny 68 IX. The Proving of Tawny 74 X. The Riddle 81 XI. Mystery and Danger 89 XII. Beginning the Search 97 XIII. At the Big Pool 105 XIV. A Puzzle 113 XV. The Smoke-House 121 XVI. A Double Surprise 129 XVII. Into the Unknown 137 XVIII. Real Trouble 144 XIX. On Wild Lakes 151 XX. Farthest North 159 XXI. Wild Fruit 166 XXII. On a New Tack 173 XXIII. The Beaver Hunt 179 XXIV. Much Work and a Clue 186 XXV. A Mystery 193 XXVI. Stalking a Moose 202 XXVII. The Storm Camp 211 XXVIII. Fighting a Wolf 218 XXIX. A Discovery 228 XXX. Ganawa Is Frightened 238 XXXI. Sailing The Pirate 247 XXXII.