The Buffalo Head
Language: English
Published by Horsdal & Schubart, Victoria, 1994
- First Edition
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: Wagon Tongue Books, Linden, AB, CanadaWagon Tongue Books
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The author of these 274 pages was born in england and took his military training at Shoeburyness among others. After the war and a career in banking, at age thirty, Patterson got itchy feet and headed for Canada. He ultimately became a rancher in the shadows of the mountains in the Alberta Foothills. Section of b/w photographs at center. LEARN about : Rastatt, Weary Creek Gap, chaps, King Bearspaw, and Knife Edge Ridge. Cond : Paper wrapper is light green with black lettering. Cover illustration is a hand-tinted, wraps-around photo of the Buffalo Head Ranch - circa 1937. Volume is bright and clean. No names, marks, creases, nor tears. Binding is started in one or two places. Excellent reading copy. Quote (p. 150) : " The old cabins which we planned to use were unroofed and stripped completely, down to log walls and floors. It was while they were in that unprotected state, about the middle of May, that a thunderstorm hit us and a deluge of rain came down. The old cabins ._._._. ." Size: 8vo. …
Seller Inventory # 008234
- Title
- The Buffalo Head
- Author
- Patterson, R. M.
- Publisher
- Horsdal & Schubart, Victoria
- Publication year
- 1994
- Condition
- Very Good +
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0920663249
- ISBN 13
- 9780920663240
- Illustrator
- B/W Photographs
- Edition
- First Thus.
- Seller catalogs
- Alberta
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About the Author
R.M. Patterson>/b> (1898-1984) moved to Canada when he realized that working in a London bank would never bring him happiness. He spent the remaining years of his life pursuing adventure in the Canadian West and was a delightfully evocative writer and an intrepid explorer. Authoring a total of five books about his excursions into the Canadian wilderness and his life on a southern Alberta ranch, Raymond Murray Patterson earned himself legions of fans and made Canada's wilderness famous.
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