NOTES FROM THE CENTURY BEFORE. A Journal From British Columbia.
New York: Random House, [1969]. First Edition (& 1st printing). Octavo, original black cloth, spine lettered in silver, front panel blocked pictorially in copper, map endpapers, top edges stained green. [273] pp. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Item #314367
¶ Hoagland's journal of three months spent wandering in Central and Northern BC in 1966. "Mr. Hoagland was intent on recapturing the feeling of the homestead era and the gold strikes: the fur-trapping, mountain-man, surveyor-explorer period - "an era of walking," as the author says. Altogether he talked to sixty or seventy old-timers - trappers, riverboat men and prospectors of the region, men who had wandered there in the wake of the Yukon gold rush, and the Indians who had greeted them on arrival. Moving from river to river, asking the questions that intrigued him, the author talked to octogenarian survivors of the lonely numbing winters, the long treks and rough labor needed to survive in this harsh paradise."
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