Thursday, January 29, 2015

The Last Stage of the Journey in Breaking-Up Season (1892)

Kate Marsden, On Sledge and Horseback to the Outcast Siberian Lepers (New York: Cassell Publishing Company, 1892), 184.

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

After Rough Ice, an Easy Place (1898)

William Martin Conway, With Ski and Sledge Over Arctic Glaciers (London: J.M. Dent & Company, 1898), 80.

Sunday, January 25, 2015

The Whole Thing Just Went All to Pieces (1885)

Jimmy Brown, “A Sleigh Ride,” Harper's Young People 6 (October 27, 1885): 820.

Thursday, January 22, 2015

Thursday, January 15, 2015

Tom is Too Fat to Run Fast (1909)

McGuffey's Eclectic Primer (New York: American Book Company, 1909), 24.


Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Sunday, January 11, 2015

I Made a Fire, and by Boiling Snow Made My Kettle (1896)

John MacDougall,  Saddle, Sled and Snowshoe: Pioneering on the Saskatchewan in the Sixties, Illustrations by J.E. Laughlin (Cincinnati: Jennings and Graham, 1896), frontispiece.

Thursday, January 8, 2015

The Snow Is Slippery, and You Often Make a Faux Pas (1852)

Uncle Thomas, Cherry Blossoms and a New Years Wreath for 1852 (Philadelphia: E.H. Butler and Company, 1852), frontispiece.