Author:
Publisher: Heritage House Publising Co Ltd
Keywords: beef, alberta, love
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2004-04-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1894898192
ISBN-13: 9781894898195

Author: Rand Richard
Publisher: Heritage House
Keywords: history, guide, concise, francisco, san, historic
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2007-04-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 187936705X
ISBN-13: 9781879367050

Author: Sharon Stratton
Publisher: Heritage House
Keywords: journal, tower, fire, sky, forest
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2006-10-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 1894974166
ISBN-13: 9781894974165

This is an enthusiastic and beautifully described account of one woman’s career as a fire-tower observer: a simple, satisfying lifestyle that embraces life without modern amenities.Always attracted to the outdoors, Sharon Stratton had applied to be a fire-tower observer five times before she was finally accepted. She headed to the forest with only her dogs for company to lead a seasonal, largely solitary life of oneness with nature and immense responsibility. Her story reveals in intriguing detail how fire-tower observers live, shedding light on the community of observers stationed in to

Author: Veera Bonner
Publisher: Heritage House Pub. Co
Keywords: memories, pioneer, preserving, chilcotin
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 1995
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1895811341
ISBN-13: 9781895811346

Authors:edited by Diana Wilson, Diana Wilson,
Publisher: Heritage House
Keywords: worth, keeping, stoires, chilcotin, cariboo, heart
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2007-04-15
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 189497428X
ISBN-13: 9781894974288

This anthology continues the story of the Cariboo Chilcotin, a harshly beautiful and remote region in B.C. s north. From the days of the gold rush through to modern times, these stories capture the spirit of a place whose beauty and wildness have inspired its people throughout its history. Legendary tales include a husband s promise to his dying wife that he will not let her body languish in what to her is an alien, inhospitable land. How the theft of a nugget pin in Barkerville leads to a murderer s capture. The ill-conceived plan to use camels on the Cariboo Road. Native traditions and ski

Author: Liz Bryan
Publisher: Heritage House
Keywords: routes, travelled, exploring, alberta, roads, country
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2007-06-15
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 1894974298
ISBN-13: 9781894974295

Experience history and the outdoors in Country Roads of Alberta, an intriguing new photographic guidebook that takes you to places you ve never been before. Alberta s scenery is as diverse as its topography. Fringed along its western edge by high mountains, the land descends through foothills to stretch into undulating plains sculpted by ancient ice into ridges, hills and deep coulees. Under the changing light of the prairie sky, the rolling landscape reveals tipi rings and medicine wheels remnants of the first people to call this land home as well as marks of later civilization: homesteads,

Author: Sid Marty
Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Co. Ltd.
Keywords: wind, leaning
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2009-05-12
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 189497462X
ISBN-13: 9781894974622

Winner of the Mountain Environment and Culture Award at the 1995 Banff Mountain Book Festival. Created by the crashing together of tectonic plates, worn down by the passage of ice and time and shaped by hot, dry chinook winds, the foothills of the Rocky Mountains are a special place. In composing his ode to the land he loves, bestselling author and mountain man Sid Marty skillfully weaves together First Nations legends with the harrowing tales of miners, early homesteaders and his own familys experiences living in an old ranch headquarters. The result is a passionate and vivid book: dense with