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• Title:The valley of youth.
  
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• Author/Creator:Holliday, Charles William, 1870-
  
• Published/Created:Caldwell, Idaho : Caxton Printers, 1948.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: FC3845.O4 H64 1948
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: FC3845.O4 H64 1948
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Okanagan River Valley (B.C. and Wash.)
  
• Genre/Form:Travel writing.
  
• Description:357 pages : map (on lining-papers), illustrations (some color), group portrait ; 25 cm
  
• Summary:The author was born in London in 1870. At the age of 16 he went to sea, sailing around the Horn to San Francisco. In 1889, he moved to British Columbia, and engaged in ranching and other occupations in the Okanagan country. In 1937, he moved to Victoria, where he wrote this, his first book.
  
• Additional formats:Available also online.
  
• Notes:Autobiographical.
  
• Contents:Pt. I. Fifty Thousand Miles. 1. Into the Golden West
  2. "Frisco"
  3. To England and Back Again
  Pt. II. The land of My Dreams. 1. Entrance tot the Valley
  2. Some Impressions of Our Indians
  3. The Road to Vernon and the Village of Lansdowne
  4. The Metamorphosis of Vernon
  5. Vernon to the Okanagan Mission
  6. The Beginnings of Kelowna
  7. A Journey Down the Lake
  8. "The Lower Country"
  9. The Shuswap and Okanagan Railway
  10. A Little Logging Camp
  11. The Law, Lawbreakers and Lawmakers
  12. Religion Rough and Ready
  13. How We Amused Ourselves
  15. "Our Lawful Occupations."