THE BUFFALO HEAD

New York: William Sloane Associates, 1961. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (xiii) 273 pp. Quarter-bound in brown cloth on beige marbled boards; decorated in silver on the spine; endpaper maps; illustrated with black and white plates. Edge and corner wear on the dustjacket; price clipped; no interior markings. A superb account of personal adventure in the vast primeval wilderness of the Canadian Rockies. In the late 1920s, Patterson turned his back on city life, an Oxford education, and a career in banking, and set forth alone to the wilds of the Rockies where he discovered the majestic forest and the beautiful flatlands that stretch west from Alberta into British Columbia, and where he found great virgin forests, glistening unnamed lakes, the treacherous snows of high mountain passes... and the horror of a giant fire that swept across this land and ravaged it. The Contents are: Part One: Destination Unknown: Growing Pains: The Upland Road; The Highter Education; Inside Looking Out; Schweidnitz. Outward Bound: Anzeindaz; The Desert of Stone; Peace River; Loup Garou; Venture to the North. Part Two: The Rocky Mountains: The Old Days; To the Heart of the Mountains; Nyahe-ya-'nibi; Goat in the Sky; The Pass in the Clouds 1; Tale of a Game Warden; Bright Morning: Construction Period; Driving Cattle; The Valley of the South Fork; Bull Creek; High Noon: Dude Wrangling; The Elk Trail; The Hill of the Flowers; The Roof of America; The Fiery Cloud: Fire Over the Foothills; The Rock Paintings; Chaos; Grass; Counting the Losses; Gone West: Wartime; Rex and Mollie; The Pass in the Clouds 2; Travellers in the Snow; and The Kootenay..