As in human life, there are tragedy, and humour, and pathos in the life of the wild; there are facts of tremendous interest, real happenings and real lives to be written about, and very small necessity for one to draw on imagination.

In "Kazan" I tried to give the reader a picture of my years of experience among the wild sledge dogs of the North.

In "The Grizzly" I have scrupulously adhered to facts as I have found them in the lives of the wild creatures of which I have written.

Little Muskwa was with me all that summer and autumn in the Canadian Rockies.

Pipoonaskoos is buried in the Firepan Range country, with a slab over his head, just like a white man.