Grass Beyond the Mountains - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Grass Beyond the Mountains write by Richmond Pearson Hobson. This book was released on 1951. Grass Beyond the Mountains available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Presents a colourful view of cattle ranching in central B.C.
Beyond the Home Ranch
Beyond the Home Ranch - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond the Home Ranch write by Diana Phillips. This book was released on 2012. Beyond the Home Ranch available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Diana Phillips, daughter of Canadian folk legend Pan Phillips, shares more extraordinary tales about her life on the ranch in the remote British Columbian backcountry. Two years after publishing Beyond the Chilcotin, her remarkable memoir about growing up on her famous father's pioneer ranch in the Chilcotin, Diana Phillips continues her story. Discouraged by a huge loss of cattle to grizzlies on killing sprees, Pan sells the Home Ranch and decides to set up a fishing and guiding venture on nearby Tsetzi Lake. Diana spends a couple of seasons working with her father at the very rustic lodge, now catering to the needs of guests paying for a wilderness experience, rather than a cattle operation, but soon follows the call of ranch life back to the Home Ranch, until she marries and gets a cabin and land of her own nearby. Working her ranch and raising her young family, as well as helping out a series of owners at Home Ranch, Diana survives lean times and becomes a masterful rancher in her own right--driving cattle along rugged trails to and from Nazko, leading hunts in the Ilgachuz Mountains and midwifing stubborn calves, not to mention fending off grizzlies and mounting rescue missions for all manner of strays. Diana's incredible memory for detail--from the taste of strawberry jam and bannock, and the beauty of a poplar grove in fall, to the time she taught a rude drunk a lesson by hitting him repeatedly in the head with her boot--makes her account of a near-pioneer life in the Blackwater country an inspiring and entertaining read.
Beyond the Chilcotin
Beyond the Chilcotin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond the Chilcotin write by Diana Phillips. This book was released on 2010-08-20. Beyond the Chilcotin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Pioneers Pan Phillips and his partner Rich Hobson carved their places in ranching history when they discovered "grass beyond the mountains" in the far reaches of the Chilcotin. Thanks to a series of hugely popular books, their exploits became the stuff of legend and Phillips became one of Canada's enduring folk heroes. But if a man had to be tough to survive some of the roughest living in creation, what did a young girl have to be? This is the story of Pan Phillips' daughter Diana, who learned to trap muskrat when she was little more than a toddler, worked with haying crews before she was into her teens and was renowned as the only person feisty enough to best her legendary father in a slanging match.
Smith and Other Events
Smith and Other Events - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Smith and Other Events write by Paul H. St. Pierre. This book was released on 1985. Smith and Other Events available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Paul St. Pierre's witty, honest writing never fails to delight, and nor does his legendary character, Smith. Cowboys, ranchers, Indians, tradesmen--these are the spirited characters for which St. Pierre has become so well known, whose lives he sketches with humor and sympathy, and who people the cattle ranges of Chilcotin country, a spectacularly beautiful pocket of British Columbia.
The Chilcotin War
The Chilcotin War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Chilcotin War write by Rich Mole. This book was released on 2011-02-01. The Chilcotin War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This colourful account of the Chilcotin War is an insightful and absorbing examination of an event that helped to shape the course of British Columbia history. In the spring of 1864, 14 men building a road along the Homathko River in British Columbia were killed by a Tsilhqot’in (Chilcotin) war party. Other violent deaths followed in the conflict that became known as the Chilcotin War. In this true tale of clashing cultures, greed, revenge and betrayal, Rich Mole explores the causes and deadly consequences of a troubling episode in British Columbia history that is still subject to debate almost 150 years later. Using contemporary sources, Mole brings to life the principal players in this tragic drama: Alfred Waddington, the Victoria businessman who decided to build the ill-fated toll road across the territory of the independent Tsilhqot’in, attempting to connect Bute Inlet to the Cariboo goldfields of the interior, and Klatsassin, the fierce Tsilhqot’in war chief whose people had already endured the devastation of smallpox.
