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Books from the Cariboo Region of BC.
The Journey

The Journey

The Overlanders' Quest for Gold
by Bill Gallaher
edition:Paperback
also available: eBook
tagged : historical

Bill Gallaher’s bestselling novel The Journey follows a group of three adventurous Overlanders—two young men and one remarkable woman—as they travel west in 1862, from the Manitoba prairies to the goldfields of the Cariboo.

 

With his gift for storytelling, Gallaher brings this intriguing era to the page as he vividly recounts the overland trek of the spirited Catherine Schubert, who made the trip in an undetected state of pregnancy; James Sellar, a combative young man of rigid determination …

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The Promise

The Promise

Love, Loyalty & the Lure of Gold
by Bill Gallaher
edition:Paperback
also available: eBook
tagged : historical

It was 1862 and the Cariboo Gold Rush was in full swing. Sophia Cameron, the Beauty of Barkerville, lay dying of typhoid when her husband, John Cariboo Cameron, made one last promise to his fading young wife. The Promise is a compelling story of a great love and an epic struggle to honour a dying wife's final request: to take her body home to eastern Canada.

 

Told in the voice of Robert Stevenson, Cameron's friend and mining partner, the story travels with the two men as they leave the frozen go …

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Zachary’s Gold

Zachary’s Gold

by Stan Krumm
edition:Paperback
also available: eBook
tagged : historical, action & adventure

In 1864, headstrong Pinkerton man Zachary Beddoes is tired of guarding hotels and railway stations, so he decides to quit his life of private law-enforcement and head west for gold. In San Francisco, Zachary hears that the best goldfields are north, in British Columbia. Undeterred by warnings of how harsh and unforgiving the Barkerville goldfields can be, Zachary sets off in search of his fortune. But before he can stake his claim, Zachary unexpectedly becomes an outlaw. Forced to flee into the …

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Chilcotin Yarns

Chilcotin Yarns

by Bruce Watt
edition:Paperback
also available: eBook
tagged : personal memoirs, rodeos

Getting three trucks and two horses stuck in the mud on "a good road" into BC's wild, remote interior was just the start of Bruce Watt's Chilcotin adventures—and it was his honeymoon, too. The wildlife, landscape and quirky, down-to-earth people captivated Bruce, and despite the hard work and challenging conditions, the Watts put down roots, raising a family, alongside herds of cattle and horses.

 

A consummate storyteller, Bruce tells it like it was—and perhaps still is for many people calli …

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Deadly Innocent

Deadly Innocent

Tragedy on the Trail to Gold
by Bill Gallaher
edition:Paperback
also available: eBook
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Best-selling chronicler of the gold rush Bill Gallaher now brings us the compelling story of the Rennie brothers.

 

Lured by dreams of wealth and a better life, William, Gilbert and Thomas Rennie set out for the Cariboo goldfields in the spring of 1862. But because of their late departure, they encountered unimaginable consequences. They crossed the prairies in good order with the famous Father Lacombe and continued along the well-marked trail of the Overlanders into the mountains. But after that, …

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I Am Full Moon

I Am Full Moon

Stories of a Ninth Daughter
by Lily Hoy Price
edition:Paperback
also available: eBook
tagged : women, cultural heritage

In this lyrical memoir, Lily Hoy Price writes with moving detail about her childhood and adolescence in a large Chinese Canadian family in the Cariboo country of northern British Columbia. The ninth daughter in a family of 12 children, Lily is an observant child who tucks away every image of life in rugged Quesnel during the 1930s for one unforgettable tale after another. She has carefully selected many of her father's early photographs to illustrate her stories. The celebrated pioneer photograp …

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Never Shoot a Stampede Queen

Never Shoot a Stampede Queen

A Rookie Reporter in the Cariboo
by Mark Leiren-Young
edition:Paperback
also available: eBook
tagged : personal memoirs

Winner of the 2009 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour

 

The cops wanted to shoot me, my bosses thought I was a Bolshevik, and a local lawyer warned me that some people I was writing about might try to test the strength of my skull with a steel pipe. What more could any young reporter hope for from his first real job?

 

The night Mark Leiren-Young drove into Williams Lake, British Columbia, in 1985 to work as a reporter for the venerable Williams Lake Tribune, he arrived on the scene of an armed ro …

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The Rainbow Chasers

The Rainbow Chasers

by Ervin Austin MacDonald
edition:Paperback
also available: eBook
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This first-hand account of a Canadian pioneer — the next title in TouchWood’s Classics West series — tells the story of a hard-won wilderness home and of the self-sufficient father and brothers who built it. Their tale of wanderlust begins in 1839 in Bytown, Ontario (later called Ottawa), with father Archie MacDonald, who reached his peak as an Ottawa Valley “bull of the woods” by age 29, prospected for silver and gold from Leadville, Colorado, to Sonora, Mexico, drove Montana cattle t …

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