Journeys to the Far West: Accounts of the Adventurers in Western Canada 1858 to 1885

by Edward Cavell

The Canadian West in the second half of the nineteenth century offered something for everybody--land for settlers, profits for big corporations like the CPR--but for many young Englishmen, it also promised exotic adventures in an unknown land. Nobody told them about the mosquitoes. Or the muskeg. Or the cold. Or the difficulties of making plum pudding out of dried pemmican. They soon found out, however, and recorded in fascinating detail their encounters...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0888622708
• ISBN13: 9780888622709
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Lorimer
• Length: 164 Pages
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 10.5" x 9.3"