Off The Beaten Track: Women
Adventurers and Mountaineers in Western Canada
Author: Cyndi Smith
Published by:
Coyote Books, 1989
290 Pages. h22xw14 cm.
ISBN# 0-9692457-2-6
The completion of the Canadian Pacific
Railway in 1885 opened the Rocky Mountains and the Selkirk
Mountains up to travellers. Like the men, the women first came
to enjoy the grandeur of the peaks and to study the natural
wonders; later they developed an interest in exploration and
climbing for their own sakes.
Off the BeatenTrack is the
story of fourteen women explorers, writers, artists,
mountaineers and trail guides who were active during the
period of the completion of the railway, and the Second World
War-- it was half a century of feverish exploration. These
women were a diverse lot, from the Quaker photographer to the
indefatigable climbers, from a passionate literary critic to
confident horsewomen.
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