The Rainbow Chasers
by MacDonald, Ervin Austin
- Used
- Near Fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1894898303
- ISBN 13
- 9781894898300
- Seller
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WESTBANK, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
A tight, clean, and unmarked copy-" This first-hand account of a Canadian pioneer 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 to the remote CPRcamps in B.C. and carved out a ranch near Fort Colville, Washington. Ervin was motherless by age four, and he and his brothers and sisters were sent to an orphanage. He was reunited with his father when he was 13, and the MacDonalds homesteaded southeast of booming Edmonton. But the prairie disagreed with the mountain man in Archie, who dreamed of the Cariboo. Thus he and his teenage sons embarked on a pack journey across the Rockies via the Yellowhead Pass - without a map or compass, and using makeshift rafts to cross rivers - in search of the special site that would become their "home." About the Author: Ervin Austin MacDonald was born in 1893. He worked on the family ranch in the Cariboo until he was in his 30s, then as a carpenter in Trail, B.C., until his retirement in 1951. He died in 1986.
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- Bookseller
- MAD HATTER BOOKSTORE (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21465
- Title
- The Rainbow Chasers
- Author
- MacDonald, Ervin Austin
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1894898303
- ISBN 13
- 9781894898300
- Publisher
- TouchWood Editions
- Place of Publication
- Nanoose Bay, British Columbia, Canada
- Date Published
- 2010
- Size
- 8 vo
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