aletheuo
04-28-2009, 09:06 PM
Hey, just wanted to mention how I have been blessed by a guy who has taken me on in mentorship. He's started me off with some great reading including, for starters, his precious collectors edition of Russel Annabel's Tales of a Big Game Guide. But since that's Alaska-based stuff and this is BC I've also been reading "Campfires in the Canadian Rockies" by William Hornaday & John Phillips. It's now out of copyright and you can find full text of it online.
http://www.archive.org/stream/campfiresincanad00hornuoft/campfiresincanad00hornuoft_djvu.txt
Set in the Elk Valley of BC in 1905, this recount of a month-long hunting expediton after mountain goats is hard to put down. Hornaday wasDIRECTOR OF THE NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL PARK at the time. I've learned so much and have been entertained much as well. Did you know that the Elk in the elk valley were protected in 1905? According to Hornaday's account, elk had just begun moving into the area from the south and were few and far between. (common knowledge to all of you, right?)
I would love to take a trip to retrace his steps. The descriptions of the landscapes are so vivid that it would be fairly easy to know exactly where he camped and the mountains he climbed.
Anyone else have the priviledge of reading this fine book? Maybe you have other books you'd like to recommend? Comments, thoughts on it?
http://www.archive.org/stream/campfiresincanad00hornuoft/campfiresincanad00hornuoft_djvu.txt
Set in the Elk Valley of BC in 1905, this recount of a month-long hunting expediton after mountain goats is hard to put down. Hornaday wasDIRECTOR OF THE NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL PARK at the time. I've learned so much and have been entertained much as well. Did you know that the Elk in the elk valley were protected in 1905? According to Hornaday's account, elk had just begun moving into the area from the south and were few and far between. (common knowledge to all of you, right?)
I would love to take a trip to retrace his steps. The descriptions of the landscapes are so vivid that it would be fairly easy to know exactly where he camped and the mountains he climbed.
Anyone else have the priviledge of reading this fine book? Maybe you have other books you'd like to recommend? Comments, thoughts on it?