Excerpt from Briar Patch, 1918 During the twelve years he remained in Manitoba, he was physician to the white settlers of the surrounding country and to two Indian tribes, the Black Feet and the Sioux. He was a magistrate and chairman of the board of education. With his sons, he cultivated an extensive farm, and shared largely in the development of the vast stretches of prairie lands into well-populated, prosperous communities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.