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Bright with Silver, first published in 1947, is the fascinating story of the Fromm brothers of Wisconsin and their rise to become one of the world's largest silver fox ranches (raised for its beautiful pelt) and growers of the medicinal herb ginseng. The book recounts their struggles, successes and failures, and their important scientific discoveries, such as the canine distemper vaccine. Included are 32 pages of photographs.

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This w...

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Excerpt from Woodcraft for WomenA discussion of the causes of this inertia would lead us far afield in the history of woman. It is sufficient here to realize its existence and the fact that it makes more difficult adaptation to the woods for woman. It does explain, how ever, the large number of women who go on outings as passive observers rather than as active participants.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of r...

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from The Long TraverseHe had received, that same morning, reports from the half-dozen posts he operated, all sent down from the headquarters post. None was less than five months old, but that is recent news in fur land. In each brief statement he read of added conquests, more hunters weaned from the Hudson's Bay Com pany, new outposts established, fresh territory gained.Mr. Pattison twisted his chair away from the win dow and abandoned...

Excerpt from Penitentiary PostPhil charged the item to extension of trade, making a place for it in his report blank. He was particularly pleased with himself, for he had given a new twist to an old trick of fur land, that land where two hundred years of precedent have devel oped a code of ethics entirely in keeping with the harshness and the loneliness of the land itself.This little business out of the way and the Indians properly impressed w...

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Excerpt from The Long TraverseHe had received, that same morning, reports from the half-dozen posts he operated, all sent down from the headquarters post. None was less than five months old, but that is recent news in fur land. In each brief statement he read of added conquests, more hunters weaned from the Hudson's Bay Com pany, new outposts established, fresh territory gained.Mr. Pattison twisted his chair away from the win dow and abandoned...

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Excerpt from Penitentiary PostPhil charged the item to extension of trade, making a place for it in his report blank. He was particularly pleased with himself, for he had given a new twist to an old trick of fur land, that land where two hundred years of precedent have devel oped a code of ethics entirely in keeping with the harshness and the loneliness of the land itself.This little business out of the way and the Indians properly impressed w...

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