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Index
Epigraph
I. forêt, hache, famille
1693–1716
1. Trépagny
2. clearings
3. Renardette
4. guests from the north
5. the wedding
6. Indian woman
7. bûcheron
II. “. . . helplessly they stare at his tracks”
1693–1727
8. Forgeron
9. Les Quatrains de Pibrac
Acknowledgments
Sel Family Tree
Duke Family Tree
About Annie Proulx
10. all the world wishes to go to China
11. Dutch sea captain
12. Steenarend
13. garden of delightful confusion
14. risk
15. hair
16. “a wicked messenger, fallen into evil . . .”
17. “unto a horse belongeth a whip”
18. reunion
19. “Exitus in dubio est”
20. rough deed
21. shifting ground
22. disappearance
III. all these woods once ours
1724–1767
23. dogs and villains
24. Auguste
25. sense of property
26. Mi’kma’ki
27. blood kin
28. the secret of green leaves
29. roast moose head
30. losing ground
31. follow me
IV. the severed snake
1756–1766
32. a funeral
33. an interesting case
34. the thing in the trunk
35. Etdidu
36. clouds
37. change
V. in the lumber camps
1754–1804
38. the house on Penobscot Bay
39. Dr. Mukhtar
40. choppers and rivermen
41. Gatineau camps
VI. “fortune’s a right whore”
1808–1826
42. inlaid table
43. error of judgment
44. keepsake
45. error compounded
46. business meeting
47. needles and pins, needles and pins
48. James is surprised
VII. broken sticks
1825–1840
49. stupendous conflagration
50. a twisted life
51. dense thickets
52. kauri
53. in the bush
VIII. glory days
1836–1870
54. vegetable wealth
55. never enough
56. Lavinia
57. a cure for headache
58. locked room
59. lime leaf
IX. the shadow in the cup
1844–1960s
60. prodigal sons
61. talking stick
62. barkskins
X. sliding into darkness
1886–2013
63. perfidy
64. loser
65. legacies
66. her place in the sun
67. a little problem
68. Egga’s daughters
69. boreal forest
70. moonlight
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