Mountain masculinity : the life and writing of Nello "Tex" Vernon-Wood in the Canadian Rockies, 1906-1938 / edited and introduced by Andrew Gow and Julie Rak ; in collaboration with Harry W. Gow and John R. Gow.
- Title
- Mountain masculinity : the life and writing of Nello "Tex" Vernon-Wood in the Canadian Rockies, 1906-1938 / edited and introduced by Andrew Gow and Julie Rak ; in collaboration with Harry W. Gow and John R. Gow.
- Published by
- Edmonton : Athabasca University Press, c2008.
- Author
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- Description
- ix, 226 p. : ill., ports.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "In 1906, Nello Vernon-Wood (1882-1978) reinvented himself as Tex Wood, Banff hunting guide and writer of "yarns of the wilderness by a competent outdoorsman." His homespun stories of a vanishing world, in such periodicals as The Sportsman, Hunting and Fishing, and the Canadian Alpine Journal, have much to tell us about the west as envisioned by those who wanted to leave the early 20th century behind - or at least read about others who had done so. In the writings of his persona "Tex," Vernon-Wood created an image of the frontier that blended the West of his guiding experiences with the West as a literary object."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Wood, Tex, 1882-1978
- Vernon-Wood, Tex, 1882-1978
- Outdoor life > Rocky Mountains, Canadian (B.C. and Alta.)
- Frontier and pioneer life > Rocky Mountains, Canadian (B.C. and Alta.)
- Outdoor writers > Alberta > Biography
- Hunting guides > Alberta > Biography
- Plein air > Rocheuses canadiennes (C.-B. et Alb.)
- Vie des pionniers > Rocheuses canadiennes (C.-B. et Alb.)
- Canada (Ouest) dans la littérature
- Écrivains de plein air > Alberta > Biographies
- Guides de chasse > Alberta > Biographies
- Rocky Mountains, Canadian (B.C. and Alta.) > In literature
- Canada, Western > In literature
- Banff Region (Alta.) > Biography
- Rocheuses canadiennes (C.-B. et Alb.) dans la littérature
- Banff, Région de (Alb.) > Biographies
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Contents
- Foreword / Ted Bishop -- Introduction / Andrew Gow and Julie Rak -- 1. Fifth Avenue Pilgrims Amid the Goats -- 2. This Guiding Game -- 3. Last Great Buffalo Drive -- 4. "William, Prepare My Barth" -- 5. US Winter Sports -- 6. Rams -- 7. Tepee Tales -- 8. Early Ski Attempt on Mt. Ptarmigan -- 9. Pipestone Letters No. 1 -- 10. An' All We Do Is Hunt -- 11. Latest From Pipestone -- 12. Dried Spinach or Moose Steak? -- 13. Tex Reads His Permit -- 14. Guide Knows Everything -- 15. Tex: Gentleman's Gentleman -- 16. It's Good to Be Alive -- 17. Tex Takes a Trophy -- 18. Sawback Cleans a Laker -- 19. Sawback Changes His Mind -- 20. Tex Tangles With Horribilis -- 21. Navigatin' for Namaycush -- 22. What's in a Name? -- 23. Sawback and the Sporting Proposition -- 24. Wild Goose Chase, by 'Ramon Chesson' -- 25. It's a Woman's World -- Appendix A. Tex Vernon-Wood / John R. Gow -- Appendix B. Gift from Grandad Vernon-Wood / Harry W. Gow.
- Owning institution
- Harvard Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Additional formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Processing action (note)
- committed to retain