Diamond hitch: The early outfitters and guides of Banff and Jasper

Type

Book

Authors

E. J Hart

ISBN 10

0919934080

ISBN 13

9780919934085

Tags

Canadian Rockies (B.C. and Alta.) -- Description and travel, Canadian Rockies (B.C. and Alta.) -- History, Mountaineering guides (Persons), Canadian Rockies (B.C. and Alta.), Biography, Hunting guides -- Canadian Rockies, (B.C. and Alta.) -- Biography, Fishing guides -- Canadian Rockies (B.C. and Alta.) -- Biography, Hiking -- Canadian Rockies (B.C. and Alta.), Equipment and supplies -- History, Fishing guides, Hiking--Equipment and supplies, Hunting guides, Travel, Canada -- Canadian Rockies

Description

As the tourist trade developed in Banff and Jasper just prior to and following the turn of the twentieth century, a special breed of men emerged to lead wealthy, latter-day, explorers into the Rocky Mountain wilderness. These outfitters and guides were often as undisciplined and unkeept as their clients were refined and polished. But together this unlikely alliance wrote the final chapter in the history of exploration in the Rockies. Diamond Hitch describes the colourful lives and times of such men as Tom Wilson, Bill Peyto, Jim Simpson, the requester brothers, Fred Stephens and the Otto brothers --the true mountain mend of th Candian west.

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