Challenge the Wilderness
The Legend of George Elson
by Clayton Klein
Here is Clayton Klein at his best. Challenge the Wilderness is a powerful historical adventure that sweeps across Canada from Ontario to Labrador.
George Elson was the noted guide of the ill-fated Leonidas Hubbard Expedition into Labrador in 1903.
Then two years later he successfully guided Mina Benson Hubbard across the Labrador peninsula from North West River to Ungava Bay. Other than these two journeys very little was formerly known of Mr. Elson outside of Moosonee and Moose Factory.
Learn the Unique way of life of the James Bay Crees during the early years of the twentieth century.
Challenge the Wilderness is a historical novel of the loves and tragedies in the adventure-filled life of the legendary George Elson.
Several years of extensive research by the author have revealed scores of formerly unpublished incidents in the life of this amazing woodsman and explorer. For three decades after his guiding days, Mr. Elson worked for the Revillon Freres Trading Company, first as an apprentice, then for seventeen years as the manager of their post at Fort George along the east side of James Bay.
“’Challenge the Wilderness’ is based on the known facts of the Hubbard/Wallace expedition to Labrador in 1903 and especially the hero, the half-Cree Indian George Elson. Whether you know the story or have never heard it, Klein’s book is the ‘rest of the story’ and it’s an arresting one.
“I have to admit that Clayton Klein has written the story I wanted to write. Looking back now to my first reading of the Dillon Wallace and Mina Benson Hubbard accounts, George Elson was my hero too.”
-Dave Harrison,
Editor-in-Chief, Canoe Magazine
“Clayton Klein has written a true adventure story of exploration through Labrador in the early years of the 20th Century.
“Let the world enjoy it and know that there were good men in the world like Leonidas Hubbard, George Elson and my father, Dillon Wallace.
It is a book well worth reading.”
-Dillon Wallace,
Beacon, New York
Challenge the Wilderness by Clayton Klein
425 pages ♦ hard cover ♦ 49 maps & photographs ♦ Retail price: $15.95
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