The Rising of the Red Man: A Romance of the Louis Riel Rebellion (Dodo Press)

"It was the finest old log house on the banks of the mighty Saskatchewan river, and the kitchen with its oldfashioned furniture and ample space was the best room in it. On the long winter nights when the ice cracked on the river, when the stars twinkled coldly in the blue, and Nature slept under the snows, it was the general meeting-place of the Douglas household."