 This same territory had claimed the life of writer Leonidas Hubbard a few years earlier.He described his journey up the Fraser River to access Indian House Lake on George River in the popular "Through Trackless Labrador" in 1911.His reputation was such that former president Theodore Roosevelt, a fellow writer, explorer and hunter, wrote to him, commending him on his latest book, which he described as the best that season, and asking to meet him.