The Buffalo Head

The wildest, loveliest and least-traveled region of Alberta was Raymond Patterson's home territory in the 1930s and '40s; the Buffalo Head ranch swept to the very frontier of the majestic Rocky Mountains. This land of untouched glory comes alive in vivid descriptions of ranching, exploring, and camping: the jostling excitement of cattle drives; the distant sparkle of a nameless alpine lake; brook trout sizzling over an open fire. The wilderness is different now, changed by development, tourism, and forest fires, but the magic of Patterson's time and place lives on in these entertaining pages.