On Snow-Shoes to the Barren Grounds: Twenty-Eight Hundred Miles after Musk-Oxen and Wood-Bison (Classic Reprint Series)

x, 324 pp. "Caspar William Whitney (1864 – 1929) was an American author, editor, explorer, outdoorsman and war correspondent. He originated the concept of the All-American team in college football in 1889 when he worked for Harper's Magazine. Lest the reader should be deficient in his knowledge of Arctic geography, Mr. Whitney explains that the Barren Grounds begin ten days' journey beyond the Great Slave Lake and run down to the Arctic Ocean, with Hudson's Bay as their eastern and Great Bear Lake and the Coppermine River as their western boundary. We may well believe that this is the region of " the most complete and extended desolation on earth." Mr. Whitney's account of his journey to this far-away land is a tale of adventure. From it we learn how the wood-bison and musk-ox are hunted, and how the many difficulties of travel within the Arctic Circle are overcome."