Rocky Mountain Madness

Download or read book Rocky Mountain Madness written by Edward Cavell and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rocky Mountain Madness" is a throwback to the heyday of Victorian ambition when Banff was a rustic-albeit bucolically charming- outpost of the Empire and the streets were people with climbers, outfitters, cowboys, cooks, guides, photographers and poets. This entertaining collection of historical photographs, amusing newspaper accounts, reminiscences and letters evokes the capricious antics the mountains summoned for these people and, to quote the authors, includes 'accounts of occasional accomplishment, accomplished adventure, adventurous rambling and rambling discourse.