The Smith, A. De Herries (Augustus De Herries) 1881-1945 creator Graef, Robert A. 1879-1951 text utu 2025 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "The Arctic legions by A. De Herries Smith" is a pulp adventure short story written in the early 20th century. The story centers on a Mountie and the dangerous prisoner he’s captured, stranded amid a vast caribou migration on the Barren Lands, where their standoff becomes a brutal test of will, cunning, and survival against nature’s relentless tide. Corporal Conroy, injured and disarmed, faces Yeyik, the Yellowknife killer, on a boulder as millions of caribou thunder past. Yeyik taunts him with a stolen Colt while both men fray under the maddening click of hooves. Conroy needles the vain hunter into firing into the herd; Yeyik leaps onto a deer, and Conroy dives after him, the pair swallowed by the stampede. Fighting through the chaos, Conroy wrests control, hauls Yeyik back to safety, and waits as wolves arrive, signaling the migration’s end. With the danger passed, he reclaims the gun, disarms the prisoner, and marches him toward the post across the suddenly silent Barrens. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Release date is 2025-09-07 Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan & the online Distributed Proofreaders Canada team at https://www.pgdpcanada.net Originally published: New York, NY: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1929 Short stories Canada, Northern -- Fiction Royal Canadian Mounted Police -- Fiction Racially mixed people -- Fiction Caribou -- Migration -- Fiction PS New York, NY: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1929 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76834 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76834 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134759.0 76834