The Buffalo Head.

Octavo, hardcover (brown cloth-backed green marbled boards), silver letters, map illus. endpapers, xiii + 273 pp. Fine (As New) in a Very Good dust jacket with edgewear that includes light chipping. From dust jacket: The wildest, loveliest and least-traveled region in Alberta was the author's home place from the early 30s until after the second World War. At his ranch, the Bufflo Head, the grazing grounds ran into the outer edge of the Rockies and there was no other man's chimney smoke this side of British Columbia and the Continental Divide. This land of untouched glory comes magnificently to life in these pages. No less extraordingary than his vivid descriptive writing is the story of how the author, an Oxonian and probationer in the Bank of England, decided to go there in the first place.Then in the summer of '36 came the great holocaust known as the Phillips fire. Raging from British Columbia to Alberta, it destroyed 32 square miles of spruce and pine and changed forever the picture painted so brilliantly by R. M. Patterson. But the majesty of the country lives on in these pages, colored with a stirring account of human courage and resourcefulness. Crisp and sharp as the mountain air itself, this book will provide a satisfying pleasure for the adventurer and his armchair brother alike. Canadian History, Canada, North America, Alberta.…