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Thomas Osborne delivers a gripping account of 1870s Ontario pioneer life. The view 16-year-old Thomas Osborne first had of Muskoka was at night, trudging alone with his even younger brother along unmarked primitive roads to find their luckless father who, in 1875, had decided to make a new start for his beleaguered family on some "free land" in the bush east of the pioneer village of Huntsville, Ontario. The miracle is that Thomas lived to tell the tale. For the next five years Thomas endured starvation, falling through the ice and freezing, accidents with axes and boats, and narrow escapes from wolves and bears. Many years later, after returning to the United States, Osborne wrote down all his adventures in a graphic memoir that has become, in the words of author and journalist Roy MacGregor, "an undiscovered Canadian classic." Reluctant Pioneer provides a brooding sense of adventure and un- sentimental realism to deliver a powerful account of pioneer life where tragedies arrive as naturally as rain and where humour resides in irony. An Autobiography Of Thomas Osborne Who Spent Time In Ontario's Muskoka During The 1870's. A Risky Adventure Going To Canada -- Two Boys Push Deep Into The Backwoods -- Some Slaving To Be Done Here -- We Start Our Homestead -- The Night The Mice Danced The Quadrille -- The Others Arrive And So Does Winter -- Escaping A Stormy Lake Catastrophe -- Surviving My First Trapping Expedition -- Tricky Ways To Catch Fish -- I Look For Paying Work -- Six Cents Over -- Killing Deer Out Of Season -- The Perils Of Porcupine Soup -- Empty Cabins -- Frozen Into My Boots And Socks -- The Ups And Downs Of Net Fishing -- Dogs And Settlers Come And Go -- I Shoot One Bear And Slaughter Two Pigs -- On Our Own For The Winter -- Fighting Over Land -- There Is No Law Here -- Burnt Clothes, New Duds, And Ready To Leave -- They Decided To Die Together -- Coming Back, Never No More -- Will I Ever Reach Philadelphia? Thomas Osborne ; Foreword By Roy Macgregor ; Introduction By J. Patrick Boyer ; Sketches By George Harlow White. Originally Publ.: Toronto : Stoddart, 1995, Under Title: The Night The Mice Danced The Quadrille. Thomas Osborne delivers a gripping account of 1870s Ontario pioneer life.The view 16-year-old Thomas Osborne first had of Muskoka was at night, trudging alone with his even younger brother along unmarked primitive roads to find their luckless father who, in 1875, had decided to make a new start for his beleaguered family on some "free land" in the bush east of the pioneer village of Huntsville, Ontario. The miracle is that Thomas lived to tell the tale.For the next five years Thomas endured starvation, falling through the ice and freezing, accidents with axes and boats, and narrow escapes from wolves and bears. Many years later, after returning to the United States, Osborne wrote down all his adventures in a graphic memoir that has become, in the words of author and journalist Roy MacGregor, "an undiscovered Canadian classic."__Reluctant Pioneer__provides a brooding sense of adventure and un- sentimental realism to deliver a powerful account of pioneer life where tragedies arrive as naturally as rain and where humour resides in irony. In the 1870s in Ontario's Muskoka, teenager Thomas Osborne endured starvation, freezing, accidents with axes and boats, and narrow escapes from wolves and bears. Decades later, after moving to the United States, Osborne wrote down all his adventures in a graphic memoir four years before his death in 1938.