ISBN: 1895618525

Description: xix, 315 pages : map, portrait ; 22 cm.

Notes: Includes index.

Contents:

• 'Palliser J.'s plan'
• 'I leave London tomorrow ... on my way to North America'
• No road by the White Fish River
• Down-stream to the Prairies
• An astronomical boundary line
• Buffalo
• The South Saskatchewan
• 'Silently as an Indian'
• The magnetical observer
• 'A jolly little cariole'
• 'Little Bourgeau is a brick'
• New passes through the Rockies: The Kananaskis
• New passes through the Rockies: the kicking horse
• New passes through the Rockies: the Kootenays
• Blackfoot, balls, and buffalo
• Rivers flowing to the frozen ocean
• Through the Blackfoot country
• South of the South Saskatchewan
• Barriers beyond the Rockies
• A twelve-mile gap
• Return, report, and reckoning.

Control Number: 53517

Series: Western Canadian classics.

Subjects:

• British North American Exploring Expedition.
• Northwest, Canadian -- Discovery and exploration.
• Palliser, John, 1807-1887.