1973, ISBN: 0888260458

Paperback

[EAN: 9780888260451], [PU: Gray's, Sidney], BRITISH COLUMBIA,EAST INDIA COMPANY,BRIDGET SOPHIA,COUNTY CLARE,ENSIGN JOHN GEORGE BROWN,ARTHUR WELLESLEY VOWELL,CARIBOU ROAD,ROYAL ENGINEERS,J… More...

[EAN: 9780888260451], [PU: Gray's, Sidney], BRITISH COLUMBIA,EAST INDIA COMPANY,BRIDGET SOPHIA,COUNTY CLARE,ENSIGN JOHN GEORGE BROWN,ARTHUR WELLESLEY VOWELL,CARIBOU ROAD,ROYAL ENGINEERS,JUDGE MATTHEW BAILLIE BEGBIE,WILD HORSE CREEK,FLATHEAD COUNTRY,SOUTH KOOTENAY PASS,SEVEN PERSONS CREEK,EDMONTON,DUCK LAKE,BULL-BOATS,JIM CLEWETT,FORT BENTON,FORT GARRY,DAKOTA TERRITORY,MAIL-CARRIER,STRAWBERRY LAKE,SITTING BULL,FORT STEVENSON,SIOUX,BRIGADIER-GENERAL SAMUEL B. HOLABIRD,METIS,MILK RIVER,HALF-BREEDS,BUFFALO,MICK-A-QUAW,BLACKFEET,WOLFING,WHOOP-UP TRAIL,JOHN HEALY,MONTANA TERRITORIAL GRAND JURY,H.A. `FRED' KANOUSE,FORT MACLEOD,FORT STEELE,I.G. BAKER STORE,CAPTAIN GILPIN BROWN,CROWSNEST PASS,SOUTH-WESTERN STOCK ASSOCIATION,POUNDMAKER RESERVE,ROCKY MOUNTAIN RANGERS,COCHRANE RANCH COMPANY,MINISTER OF MILITIA,CYPRESS HILLS,NWMP,OXLEY RANCH,OLIVIA D'LONAIS,FORT TOTTEN,NORTHERN BOUNDARY SURVEY COMMISSIONS,SA-MAG-INIS-UCK,LIEUTENANT BUTLER,SWEET GRASS HILLS,E.T. SAUNDERS,STAVELY HILL,OLD MAN'S RIVER,LEES CREEK,WATERTON LAKES,FRENCHY RIVIERE,WILLIAM GLADSTONE,OIL CITY,NATIONAL PARK,CONSERVATIONIST,BLAKISTON BROOK,, SUBTITLED : ` . his life and times 1839 -1916'. John G. Brown was born in County Clare in 1839. His family's military connections lead him to India. Itchy feet lead him to Panama, San Francisco and the British Columbia's Caribou. He spent the bulk of his life as a mail carrier, buffalo hunter and entrepreneur on the Great Plains - Waterton Lakes to Winnipeg, Edmonton to Fort Totten. He was a scout for the Rocky Mountain Rangers during the Riel Rebellion and a constable in the Wild Horse Creek gold camp. He finished his life as a conservation officer in the Kootenay Lakes Forest Reserve. section of b/w archive photos at center. ONE large regional map occupies 2 early and 2 late pages. EXTENSIVE index and reference notes at back. BIBLIO. Cond : Paper wrapper is white with golden panel and brown lettering. Front cover graphic is of Kootenai Brown in artist's conception. No flaws. Almost NO wear, pages yellowed as is common in this edition, TIGHT in binding. No marks, tears, folds, bumps, stains, nor creases. P/O has pasted two sticky panels over a prev. inscr. - then signed his name. GREAT copy !! Colours bright, spine VG+. Quote (p. 113) : " We averaged about one thousand wolves in a winter and as we were living on buffalo meat which didn't cost us anything and using tents or cabins we built with our own hands, our only expense was the ammunition we used for killing buffaloand the strychnine for poisoning wolves . We never . ." Size: 12mo, Books<

1973, ISBN: 0888260458

Paperback

[EAN: 9780888260451], [PU: Gray's, Sidney], BRITISH COLUMBIA,EAST INDIA COMPANY,BRIDGET SOPHIA,COUNTY CLARE,ENSIGN JOHN GEORGE BROWN,ARTHUR WELLESLEY VOWELL,CARIBOU ROAD,ROYAL ENGINEERS,J… More...

[EAN: 9780888260451], [PU: Gray's, Sidney], BRITISH COLUMBIA,EAST INDIA COMPANY,BRIDGET SOPHIA,COUNTY CLARE,ENSIGN JOHN GEORGE BROWN,ARTHUR WELLESLEY VOWELL,CARIBOU ROAD,ROYAL ENGINEERS,JUDGE MATTHEW BAILLIE BEGBIE,WILD HORSE CREEK,FLATHEAD COUNTRY,SOUTH KOOTENAY PASS,SEVEN PERSONS CREEK,EDMONTON,DUCK LAKE,BULL-BOATS,JIM CLEWETT,FORT BENTON,FORT GARRY,DAKOTA TERRITORY,MAIL-CARRIER,STRAWBERRY LAKE,SITTING BULL,FORT STEVENSON,SIOUX,BRIGADIER-GENERAL SAMUEL B. HOLABIRD,METIS,MILK RIVER,HALF-BREEDS,BUFFALO,MICK-A-QUAW,BLACKFEET,WOLFING,WHOOP-UP TRAIL,JOHN HEALY,MONTANA TERRITORIAL GRAND JURY,H.A. `FRED' KANOUSE,FORT MACLEOD,FORT STEELE,I.G. BAKER STORE,CAPTAIN GILPIN BROWN,CROWSNEST PASS,SOUTH-WESTERN STOCK ASSOCIATION,POUNDMAKER RESERVE,ROCKY MOUNTAIN RANGERS,COCHRANE RANCH COMPANY,MINISTER OF MILITIA,CYPRESS HILLS,NWMP,OXLEY RANCH,OLIVIA D'LONAIS,FORT TOTTEN,NORTHERN BOUNDARY SURVEY COMMISSIONS,SA-MAG-INIS-UCK,LIEUTENANT BUTLER,SWEET GRASS HILLS,E.T. SAUNDERS,STAVELY HILL,OLD MAN'S RIVER,LEES CREEK,WATERTON LAKES,FRENCHY RIVIERE,WILLIAM GLADSTONE,OIL CITY,NATIONAL PARK,CONSERVATIONIST,BLAKISTON BROOK,, SUBTITLED : ` . his life and times 1839 -1916'. John G. Brown was born in County Clare in 1839. His family's military connections lead him to India. Itchy feet lead him to Panama, San Francisco and the British Columbia's Caribou. He spent the bulk of his life as a mail carrier, buffalo hunter and entrepreneur on the Great Plains - Waterton Lakes to Winnipeg, Edmonton to Fort Totten. He was a scout for the Rocky Mountain Rangers during the Riel Rebellion and a constable in the Wild Horse Creek gold camp. He finished his life as a conservation officer in the Kootenay Lakes Forest Reserve. section of b/w archive photos at center. ONE large regional map occupies 2 early and 2 late pages. EXTENSIVE index and reference notes at back. BIBLIO. Cond : Paper wrapper is white with golden panel and brown lettering. Front cover graphic is of Kootenai Brown in artist's conception. No flaws. Almost NO wear, pages yellowed as is common in this edition, TIGHT in binding. No marks, tears, folds, bumps, stains, nor creases. P/O has pasted two sticky panels over a prev. inscr. - then signed his name. GREAT copy !! Colours bright, spine VG+. Quote (p. 113) : " We averaged about one thousand wolves in a winter and as we were living on buffalo meat which didn't cost us anything and using tents or cabins we built with our own hands, our only expense was the ammunition we used for killing buffaloand the strychnine for poisoning wolves . We never . ." Size: 12mo, Books<

1973, ISBN: 0888260458

[EAN: 9780888260451], [PU: Gray's, Sidney], BRITISH COLUMBIA,EAST INDIA COMPANY,BRIDGET SOPHIA,COUNTY CLARE,ENSIGN JOHN GEORGE BROWN,ARTHUR WELLESLEY VOWELL,CARIBOU ROAD,ROYAL ENGINEERS,J… More...

[EAN: 9780888260451], [PU: Gray's, Sidney], BRITISH COLUMBIA,EAST INDIA COMPANY,BRIDGET SOPHIA,COUNTY CLARE,ENSIGN JOHN GEORGE BROWN,ARTHUR WELLESLEY VOWELL,CARIBOU ROAD,ROYAL ENGINEERS,JUDGE MATTHEW BAILLIE BEGBIE,WILD HORSE CREEK,FLATHEAD COUNTRY,SOUTH KOOTENAY PASS,SEVEN PERSONS CREEK,EDMONTON,DUCK LAKE,BULL-BOATS,JIM CLEWETT,FORT BENTON,FORT GARRY,DAKOTA TERRITORY,MAIL-CARRIER,STRAWBERRY LAKE,SITTING BULL,FORT STEVENSON,SIOUX,BRIGADIER-GENERAL SAMUEL B. HOLABIRD,METIS,MILK RIVER,HALF-BREEDS,BUFFALO,MICK-A-QUAW,BLACKFEET,WOLFING,WHOOP-UP TRAIL,JOHN HEALY,MONTANA TERRITORIAL GRAND JURY,H.A. `FRED' KANOUSE,FORT MACLEOD,FORT STEELE,I.G. BAKER STORE,CAPTAIN GILPIN BROWN,CROWSNEST PASS,SOUTH-WESTERN STOCK ASSOCIATION,POUNDMAKER RESERVE,ROCKY MOUNTAIN RANGERS,COCHRANE RANCH COMPANY,MINISTER OF MILITIA,CYPRESS HILLS,NWMP,OXLEY RANCH,OLIVIA D'LONAIS,FORT TOTTEN,NORTHERN BOUNDARY SURVEY COMMISSIONS,SA-MAG-INIS-UCK,LIEUTENANT BUTLER,SWEET GRASS HILLS,E.T. SAUNDERS,STAVELY HILL,OLD MAN'S RIVER,LEES CREEK,WATERTON LAKES,FRENCHY RIVIERE,WILLIAM GLADSTONE,OIL CITY,NATIONAL PARK,CONSERVATIONIST,BLAKISTON BROOK,, SUBTITLED : ` . his life and times 1839 -1916'. John G. Brown was born in County Clare in 1839. His family's military connections lead him to India. Itchy feet lead him to Panama, San Francisco and the British Columbia's Caribou. He spent the bulk of his life as a mail carrier, buffalo hunter and entrepreneur on the Great Plains - Waterton Lakes to Winnipeg, Edmonton to Fort Totten. He was a scout for the Rocky Mountain Rangers during the Riel Rebellion and a constable in the Wild Horse Creek gold camp. He finished his life as a conservation officer in the Kootenay Lakes Forest Reserve. section of b/w archive photos at center. ONE large regional map occupies 2 early and 2 late pages. EXTENSIVE index and reference notes at back. BIBLIO. Cond : Paper wrapper is white with golden panel and brown lettering. Front cover graphic is of Kootenai Brown in artist's conception. Minimal wear, pages yellowed as is common in this edition, TIGHT in binding, not sun-faded. No names, marks, tears, folds, bumps, nor stains. One cover crease. GREAT reading copy !! Colours bright, spine VG+. Quote (p. 113) : " We averaged about one thousand wolves in a winter and as we were living on buffalo meat which didn't cost us anything and using tents or cabins we built with our own hands, our only expense was the ammunition we used for killing buffaloand the strychnine for poisoning wolves . We never . ." Size: 12mo, Books<