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| Lake Superior in Michigans Iron country 1800's
Many of them actually thought that I went
to Montreal or Quebec or New York State to get their letters; they couldn't
see how else I could appear with them there. Thus it was that I was made
the subject of many a legend, among the Frenchmen and their families,
during the years that followed, wherein dogs, sledges, snow-shoes, woods,
wolves and other animals of the forest went to make up the hodge-podge.
Even in later years, when the government did provide for a mail, there would
always be certain months when its transportation would be impossible, owing
to the depth and softness of the snow.
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