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edition:Paperback
category: History
published: May 2009
ISBN:9781894974653
publisher: Heritage House Publishing

Rocky Mountain Madness

A Historical Miscellany

by Cavell, Edward & Jon Whyte

tagged: history, adventurers & explorers
Description

This entertaining collection of historical photographs, amusing newspaper accounts, reminiscences and letters celebrates the capricious antics that the Rockies and Selkirks summoned in Victorian residents and visitors. From climbers, cowboys, cooks and shopkeepers to hunters, guides, photographers and poets, these were people with a mania for mountains, beauty and challenge. It led them to draw maps, take fine photographs, analyze the rocks and geological structures around them, create fine paintings and, in general, plunge into the unknown and write about their wonderful adventures. Rocky Mountain Madness offers up a miscellany of their images and writings, including accounts of occasional accomplishment, accomplished adventure, adventurous rambling and rambling discourse.

About the Authors

Cavell, Edward

EDWARD CAVELL served as Curator of Photography at the Archives of the Canadian Rockies in Banff, and acted as photographic researcher for Calgary: An Illustrated History.

Jon Whyte

EDWARD CAVELL served as Curator of Photography at the Archives of the Canadian Rockies in Banff, and acted as photographic researcher for Calgary: An Illustrated History.

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