Author: PATTERSON, EDWARD; COX, DOUG; PRYCE, ELIZABETH
Title: Wagon Train over the Monashee
Description: Penticton, BC, Canada: Skookum Publications, 1988. First Edition. Paperback. ISBN: 0919773060. 92 pages. Map. Numerous black and white reproductions of archival black and white photos. "Returns the reader to an era in Canadian history when raising, training, trading and selling, and the general use of horses, were in their last decades of necessity and popularity. The Patterson herds were not animals raised in the neatly fenced paddocks of today. Range bred horses were left in the mountains until maturity, then corralled, castrated and branded. This story deals with these wild horses and the lifestyle of those men who worked with them and depended upon them." - from Introduction. Patterson's family was droughted out of Alberta and travelled by covered wagon to British Columbia to make a new start. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy of this adventurous depression-era history.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Wagon Train Over the Monashee History British Columbia Migrants Edward Patterson Great Depression. Good .

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