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"Based on previously unpublished reports and journals thought to be lost, Through An Unknown Country provides the reader with a harrowing and riveting account of a 19th century expedition through the northern mountain ranges of western Canada. In the winter of 1874-75, Edward Worrell Jarvis (1846 1894) and Charles Francis Hanington (1848-1930) took part in an expedition on behalf of the Canadian Pacific Survey from Quesnel, British Columbia, to Winnipeg, Manitoba. It led them over the northern Rocky Mountains through what would come to be known as Jarvis Pass (Kakwa Provincial Park, British Columbia) and eventually onto the Canadian plains. The trip took them 116 days and covered over 3000 kilometres, of which almost 1500 was travelled on snowshoes. Through An Unknown Country brings together the day-to-day reports of Jarvis and the more entertaining narrative of the epic journey by Hanington into a single volume for the first time. Recounting harrowing treks through deep mountains, densely forested valleys, open foothills and wide prairie, this highly readable adventure story can most certainly be read alongside the better-known journals of Alexander Mackenzie, Simon Fraser, David Thompson and Paul Kane."--
Snowshoes and snowshoeing --- Winter sports --- Jarvis, Edward Worrell, --- Hanington, Charles Francis, --- Hanington, C. F. --- Travel --- Canadian Rockies (B.C. and Alta.) --- Rocky Mountains, Canadian (B.C. and Alta.) --- Canadian Rocky Mountains (B.C. and Alta.) --- Rocheuses canadiennes (B.C. and Alta.) --- Rockies, Canadian (B.C. and Alta.) --- Rocky Mountains --- Description and travel. --- Discovery and exploration.
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The definitive biography of this Canadian mountain hero, Lawrence Grassi will be essential reading for those interested in the history of immigration, sport, and the Rocky Mountains.
Italian Canadians --- Mountaineers --- Climbers, Mountain --- Mountain climbers --- Rock climbers --- Athletes --- Canadians of Italian ancestry --- Canadians of Italian ethnic origin --- Canadians of Italian origin --- Canadians --- European Canadians --- Italians --- Grassi, Lawrence, --- Rocky Mountains, Canadian (B.C. and Alta.) --- Canmore (Alta.) --- Canadian Rockies (B.C. and Alta.) --- Canmore, Alta. --- Canadian Rocky Mountains (B.C. and Alta.) --- Rocheuses canadiennes (B.C. and Alta.) --- Rockies, Canadian (B.C. and Alta.) --- Rocky Mountains --- Rocky Mountains, Canadian
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The Alpine Club of Canada imagined the Rockies and neighbouring ranges to the west and the north as s "climber's paradise." Through a century of adventure and advocacy, the ACC led the way to mountain pursuits in spectacular regions. In Climber's paradise, historian and mountain studies specialist Pearl Ann Reichwein presents a compelling case for understanding wild places and human activity within them as parts of a whole. This is a work of invaluable scholarship in the areas of environmental history, public policy, sport studies, recreation, and tourism that gains significantly from the author's personal experience mountaineering and from has interest in mountain culture, This book speaks to mountaineers, environmentalists, travellers across. Canada and beyond, and all of us who embrace nature.
National parks and reserves --- Mountaineering --- Outdoor recreation --- Recreation --- Recreation areas --- Climbing mountains --- Mountain climbing --- Hiking --- Outdoor life --- National reserves --- Parks, National --- Reserves, National --- Parks --- Protected areas --- Public lands --- Forest reserves --- Military reservations --- National protected areas systems --- Natural areas --- History --- Alpine Club of Canada --- ACC --- A.C.C. --- Canadian Rockies (B.C. and Alta.) --- Canadian Rocky Mountains (B.C. and Alta.) --- Rocheuses canadiennes (B.C. and Alta.) --- Rockies, Canadian (B.C. and Alta.) --- Rocky Mountains, Canadian (B.C. and Alta.) --- Rocky Mountains --- Canadian History. --- Mountaineering. --- Parks.
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In 1842 John C. Frémont led a party of twenty-five men on a five-month journey from Saint Louis to the Wind River Range in the Rocky Mountains; his goal: to chart the best route to Oregon. In 1843 Frémont was commissioned for another expedition, to explore the Great Salt Lake, Washington, eastern California, Carson Pass, and the San Joaquin Valley, places that did not yet belong to the United States.His journals from these expeditions, edited in collaboration with his wife, Jessie Benton Frémont, and published by Congress, thrilled the nation and firmly established Frémont's persona as the
Adventure and adventurers --- Adventurers --- Voyages and travels --- West (U.S.) --- Rocky Mountains --- Pacific States --- Pacific Coast States --- Rockies --- Rocky Mountain Front --- Stoney Mountains --- American West --- Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) --- United States, Western --- Western States (U.S.) --- Western United States --- Discovery and exploration. --- Description and travel. --- Description and travel --- Pacific and Mountain States
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Robert Pack is a narrative master blessed with a keen ear for everyday speech. In poems that recall Robert Frost's meditative regard of nature, Pack's newest collection, Elk in Winter, resolves universal questions in the particular, the personal, and the intimate. This rich and varied volume moves from comedy to elegy, from lyric to narrative, in which individual characters are revealed and rendered symbolic by the stories that enclose them. What finally unites the poems of Elk in Winter is Pack's desire to appeal to the ear as much as to the heart, and to discover and reveal the passionate music of ideas.
Literature. --- POETRY / General. --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Rocky Mountains --- Rockies --- Rocky Mountain Front --- Stoney Mountains --- poetry, collection, nature, wilderness, elegy, lyric, narrative, rocky mountains, seasons, creative writing, contemporary, literature, courage, suffering, everyday life, mundane, ordinary, joy, sympathy, verse, community, humanity, connection, neighbors, family, love, overcoming, obstacles, redemption, maturation, growth, wisdom, age.
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Ranching --- Human-animal relationships --- Wolves --- Cattle ranching --- Agriculture --- Animal culture --- Beef cattle --- Range management --- Animal-human relationships --- Animal-man relationships --- Animals and humans --- Human beings and animals --- Man-animal relationships --- Relationships, Human-animal --- Animals --- Canis --- History. --- Control --- Rocky Mountains --- Rockies --- Rocky Mountain Front --- Stoney Mountains
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"Areas of the Rocky Mountains of Idaho and Montana are some of the most important remaining examples of American wilderness. These areas have been preserved because of citizens who stood against private and government plans to build roads and dams for timber and hydropower projects and to diminish wildlife habitat. Where Roads Will Never Reach tells the stories of hunters, anglers, outfitters, scientists, and other concerned citizens who devoted themselves to protecting remnant wild lands and ecosystems in the northern Rockies. Beginning in the 1940's and 1950's, as encroaching roads, dams, and clearcuts degraded habitat for native trout, salmon, grizzly bears, and other mammals large and small, these alarmed men and women took action. Environmental historian Frederick Swanson argues that their heartfelt, eloquent message on behalf of wild creatures and the places they live helped boost the American wilderness movement to its current prominence"--
Nature. --- Environmental protection. --- Ecology. --- Environmental protection --- Ecology --- Nature --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology --- Environmental quality management --- Protection of environment --- Applied ecology --- Environmental engineering --- Environmental policy --- Environmental quality --- Nature conservation --- Wilderness areas --- National parks and reserves --- Conservation of nature --- Nature protection --- Protection of nature --- Conservation of natural resources --- Conservation biology --- Endangered ecosystems --- Natural areas --- Lands, Protected wild --- Places, Protected wild --- Protected wild lands --- Protected wild places --- Protected wildlands --- Regions, Wilderness --- Wild lands, Protected --- Wild places, Protected --- Wilderness regions --- Wildlands, Protected --- Protected areas --- National reserves --- Parks, National --- Reserves, National --- Parks --- Public lands --- Forest reserves --- Military reservations --- National protected areas systems --- Conservation --- Rocky Mountains --- Rockies --- Rocky Mountain Front --- Stoney Mountains --- Environmental conditions. --- Description and travel.
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A thoroughly revised edition of the most comprehensive and authoritative photographic field guide to North American butterfliesThis is a revised second edition of the most detailed, comprehensive, and user-friendly photographic field guide to the butterflies of North America. Written by Jeffrey Glassberg, the pioneering authority on the field identification of butterflies, the guide covers all known species, beautifully illustrating them with 3,500 large, gorgeous color photographs-the very best images available. This second edition includes more than 500 new photos and updated text, maps, and species names. For most species, there are photographs of topsides and undersides, males and females, and variants. All text is embedded in the photographs, allowing swift access in the field, and arrows point to field marks, showing you exactly what to look for. Detailed, same-page range maps include information about the number of broods in each area and where strays have been recorded. Color text boxes highlight information about habitat, caterpillar food plants, abundance and flight period, and other interesting facts. Also included are a quick visual index and a caterpillar food plant index. The result is an ideal field guide that will enable you to identify almost every butterfly you see.A revised second edition of the most comprehensive photographic field guide to North American butterflies, featuring more than 500 new photos and updated text, maps, and species namesWritten by the pioneering authority on the field identification of butterfliesBeautifully illustrated with 3,500 color photographs that show all known species, including views of topsides and undersides, males and females, and variants for most speciesAuthoritative text embedded in the photographs for swift accessDetailed range mapsColor text boxes that highlight information about habitat, food plants, abundance and flight period, and other interesting factsAn invaluable tool for field identification
Butterflies --- Identification. --- North America. --- Turtle Island --- Abdomen. --- Adelpha. --- Alfalfa. --- Anartia jatrophae. --- Annonaceae. --- Anthocharis midea. --- Aphid. --- Aphrodite fritillary. --- Apiaceae. --- Arid. --- Ascia monuste. --- Asterocampa clyton. --- Autochton cellus. --- Baltimore checkerspot. --- Bearberry. --- Big Bend National Park. --- Blue-gray. --- Boloria chariclea. --- Buckwheat. --- Butterfly World. --- Butterfly count. --- Butterfly. --- Callophrys sheridanii. --- Caterpillar. --- Ceanothus. --- Celastrina ladon. --- Chlosyne lacinia. --- Coenonympha tullia. --- Colias eurytheme. --- Colias. --- Danaus eresimus. --- Eastern tailed-blue. --- Edith's checkerspot. --- Epargyreus clarus. --- Euphyes conspicua. --- Euphyes dukesi. --- Euptoieta claudia. --- Eurema daira. --- Eurema mexicana. --- Eurema nicippe. --- Female. --- Feniseca tarquinius. --- Ganyra josephina. --- Glaucopsyche lygdamus. --- Guadalupe Mountains National Park. --- Hesperia comma. --- High Rockies. --- Iridescence. --- Juniperus virginiana. --- Junonia coenia. --- Legume. --- Lorquin's admiral. --- Lozenge (heraldry). --- Lycaena helloides. --- Lycaena phlaeas. --- Lycaenidae. --- Marpesia petreus. --- Monarch butterfly. --- Northern California. --- Nymphalis antiopa. --- Nymphalis vaualbum. --- Oak. --- Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. --- Overwintering. --- Papilio anchisiades. --- Papilio androgeus. --- Papilio brevicauda. --- Papilio canadensis. --- Papilio glaucus. --- Papilio indra. --- Papilio machaon. --- Papilio multicaudata. --- Papilio polyxenes. --- Papilio rutulus. --- Papilio xuthus. --- Pieridae. --- Polites peckius. --- Polygonia interrogationis. --- Polygonia. --- Pontia protodice. --- Pyrgus oileus. --- Pyrrhopyge araxes. --- Regal fritillary. --- Ruddy. --- Saltbush. --- San Juan Mountains. --- Satyrium acadica. --- Satyrium californica. --- Shrub. --- South Texas. --- Southern California. --- Speyeria atlantis. --- Starling. --- Swallowtail butterfly. --- Thicket. --- Variable checkerspot. --- West Coast lady. --- Wet meadow. --- White mustard.
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