Grass Beyond the Mountains: Discovering the Last Great Cattle Frontier on the North American ContinentThis true adventure story tells of the successful exploration of the unknown land beyond the formidable Itcha, Algak and Fawnie mountain ranges in the heart of the British Columbia by three men who survived an epic trek through uncharted country to open up a cast new frontier of grass. Together Rich Hobson, Panhandle Phillips and Tommy Holte conquered a wilderness as tough, as wild and as remote as the West of the early days to stake their claim to the last great cattle range on the American continent. Over the mountain passes through the jack-pine forests, along the gray muskegs they rode their sturdy horses, the other heres of this dramatic story, carrying tremendous loads of equipment under killing conditions. There were Nimpo, "the horse who wouldn't die," and Stuyve, Buck, Old Joe, The Piledriver, Big George, Little Roanie, The Spider and Old Scabby White. The book is dedicated to these courageous animals, who made possible the founding of what is now the Frontier Cattle company, an enterprise counting its acres in the millions. This is not only an extraordinary story of pioneer exploration, but a story told by a natural writer who uses the Western idiom to great effect. He describes with picturesque humor the fabulous characters that people the frontier and the many homely, gay and tragic incidents that accompanied an adventure rivaling the great true stories of our frontiers hundreds of years ago -- Book jacket. |
Contents
THE CAREFREE HORSEMAN | 103 |
UNEXPLORED TERRITORY | 119 |
MUSKEGS AND MOSQUITOES | 135 |
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ahead ain't Alexis Creek Alfred Algaks Anahim Lake Andy Andy Holte Batnuni Bella Coola Bert Blackwater Blackwater River boys British Columbia Bryant bunch bunch grass bunkhouse cabin camp cayuses Charlie Chilcotin Christenson coffee cold colts corral creek Cyrus Lord dark distance edge eyes face feet fire going gonna grinned grub hackamore hard head hell herd Holte hoofs hundred Indian Itcha Mountains jackpine Jim Holt knew land looked meadow miles moose moose-hide moved muskeg night Nimpo nothin outfit pack horses pack train Pan's Piledriver pounds pulled ranch range ride rock rode rope saddle horses Scabby White Shorty side slough grass snapped snorted snow spruce Squinas stood stopped Stuyve suddenly swamp swung Tatla Lake Teamster There's thought timber told Tommy took Top Hand trail trees trip trotted turned Ulgatcho Vinney Vinney's walked wild Williams Lake windfalls yelled
References to this book
The Archive of Place: Unearthing the Pasts of the Chilcotin Plateau William Joseph Turkel No preview available - 2007 |
The Archive of Place: Unearthing the Pasts of the Chilcotin Plateau William Joseph Turkel No preview available - 2007 |