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edition:Hardcover
category: Biography & Autobiography
published: Jan 1996
ISBN:9781550171518
publisher: Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd.

No Path But My Own

Horseback Adventures in the Chilcotin & the Rockies

by Cliff Kopas, with Leslie Kopas

tagged: horses, wildlife
Description

Cliff Kopas fell in love with the "wild country" when he was a boy, and he never got over it. Here are stories and photos from four memorable pack trips he took in the 1920s and 1930s, compiled by his son Leslie.

In his teen years, Kopas and a buddy packed out from the Chilcotin to Banff and Lake Louise. Later, Cliff and his young wife accompanied medics to remote Ulkatcho Indian settlements, where they met Clayton Mack, the famous Nuxalk hunting guide. In the third story, on horseback in the dead of winter, Kopas and Mack face howling snow and howling wolves. In the last story, three travellers in Tweedsmuir Park confront wasps, wind and grizzlies.

About the Authors

Cliff Kopas

In 1933 Cliff Kopas and his wife led packhorses from Calgary to Bella Coola, where they opened a general store. Cliff was instrumental in the completion of the famous Chilcotin Highway, and wrote many newspaper and magazine articles as well as the books Packhorses to the Pacific, Bella Coola and No Path But My Own (Harbour, 1996).

Leslie Kopas has worked in forestry and as a museum curator. He lives in Vancouver.

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