The wild north land: Being the story of a winter journey, with dogs, across northern North America

Butler, William Francis (Sir): 1838-1910. Born in Ireland; British soldier; regiment sent to Canada at time of Fenian Raids, 1867; participated in Wolseley's Red River expedition as an advance scout, 1870; sent across the prairies to report on the smallpox epidemic, 1870-1871; made a trip to Lake Athabasca and on to Victoria via the Peace River, 1872-1873; rest of life spent elsewhere in British Empire (Wallace, Dictionary of Canadian biography ). // Also published, 1st London edition, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle, 1873 ([12], 358, [2], 38p.; publisher's advertisements dated October 1873); 2nd edition, London: S. Low, Marston, Low & Searle, 1874 (x, 358p.); 3rd edition, London: S. Low, Marston, Low & Searle, 1874 (x, 358p.); 4th edition, London: S. Low, Marston, Low & Searle, 1874 (x, 358p.); 5th edition, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle, 1874 (x, 358p.); 4th edition, Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1874 (x, 358p.); [2nd edition], Montreal: Dawson Bros., 1874 (x, 358p.); 7th edition, London: S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1878 (358, 32p.); 8th edition, London: S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1881 (x, 354p.); 9th edition, London: S. Low, Marston, Low & Searle, 1884 (x, 358p.); 10th edition, London: Sampson Low, 1896 (x, 358p.); large paper edition limited to 210 numbered copies, New York: New Amsterdam, 1903 (xviii, 360p.); New York: A.S. Barnes & Co., 1904 (vii-xxii, 360p.); London: Burnes & Oates, 1907 & 1915 (364p.); Toronto: Macmillan Co. of Canada, [1907] (xiii, 364p.); Toronto: Macmillan, 1910 (xiii, 364p.); with introduction by William Lawson Grant, Toronto: Courier Press, 1911 (xxii, 360p.); with introduction by Robert Waite, New York: Allerton Books Co., 1922 ([1], 1 leaf, vii-xxii, 360p.); Toronto: Musson Book Co., 1924 (xiii, 364p.); reprint of 1873, Rutland, Vermont: C.E. Tuttle Co., [1968] (xviii, 363p.); reprint of 1873 with introduction by Edward McCourt, Edmonton: Hurtig, 1968 (xviii, 363p.); reprint of Allerton, 1922