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• Title:Grass beyond the mountains : discovering the last great cattle frontier on the North American Continent / by Richard P. Hobson, Jr.
  
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• Author/Creator:Hobson, Richmond P. (Richmond Pearson), 1907-1966, author.
  
• Published/Created:Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott, [1951]
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: FC3817.4 .H627 1951
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: FC3817.4 .H627 1951
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Frontier and pioneer life--British Columbia.
  Cattle--British Columbia.
  British Columbia--Discovery and exploration.
  
• Genre/Form:Biographies.
  
• Description:256 pages ; 21 cm
  
• Summary:This true adventure story tells of the successful exploration of the unknown land beyond the formidable Itcha, Algak and Fawnie mountain ranges in the heart of the British Columbia by three men who survived an epic trek through uncharted country to open up a cast new frontier of grass. Together Rich Hobson, Panhandle Phillips and Tommy Holte conquered a wilderness as tough, as wild and as remote as the West of the early days to stake their claim to the last great cattle range on the American continent. Over the mountain passes through the jack-pine forests, along the gray muskegs they rode their sturdy horses, the other heres of this dramatic story, carrying tremendous loads of equipment under killing conditions. There were Nimpo, "the horse who wouldn't die," and Stuyve, Buck, Old Joe, The Piledriver, Big George, Little Roanie, The Spider and Old Scabby White. The book is dedicated to these courageous animals, who made possible the founding of what is now the Frontier Cattle company, an enterprise counting its acres in the millions. This is not only an extraordinary story of pioneer exploration, but a story told by a natural writer who uses the Western idiom to great effect. He describes with picturesque humor the fabulous characters that people the frontier and the many homely, gay and tragic incidents that accompanied an adventure rivaling the great true stories of our frontiers hundreds of years ago -- Book jacket.
  
• Additional formats:Available also online.
  
• Contents:From New York to Wyoming
  North to the frontier
  Moose-hided men of Anahim
  Pioneers of the wild interior
  Moose
  hundreds of them
  Trail drive into a frozen world
  The arctic blizzard
  Social life on the frontier
  The snuffy Arabian
  Horses for the long trek
  The carefree horseman
  Unexplored territory
  Muskegs and mosquitoes
  The lost range
  Fury on the hoof
  Indian drums on the Blackwater
  Cowboy carpenters
  Pan meets a grizzly
  Pan meets a girl
  The great grassy world
  The night the horses raced with death
  The four million acre cattle company
  Starvation drive.