Exploring Hidden Muskoka is a book that will assist readers in exploring locations of historical and natural interest throughout Muskoka, revealing a side to this popular region that few tourists and cottagers appreciate. The book will be designed to be highly entertaining while also being a practical tool to assist in exploration and sightseeing.

Exploring Hidden Muskoka

Travel

Hind, Andrew

Canada

Folklore Publishing

Tighten Your Lines and Hang On!You're in for quite a ride! There is simply no other race like it. The Calgary Stampede's Rangeland Derby brings together a unique community of men, women and horses for the toughest teamster competition in the world! In 2023, the Rangeland Derby celebrates its 100th anniversary. Every summer for 10 decades, drivers and outriders with their horses and wagons have dashed, yelled and thundered around Calgary's racetrack. Craving excitement and speed, cowboys and their horses have stoked their version of hell on wheels, creating an electrifying uniquely western event.This book takes its hat off to this incomparable contest and gallops into the lives, stories and true tall tales of the men and women in a community that has no equal.The Calgary Stampede is the Super Bowl of chuckwagon racing. Chuckwagon races originated on the western plains, and nowhere else in the world are they held on the same scale as in Calgary. Here the best drivers and horses compete for the sport's richest prizes.To compete, every contending cowboy relies upon their family to support their avid racing passion. Working, playing and laughing, the involvement of entire families is rare in any pro sport, but it has always been this way in chuckwagon racing. They share a rare lineage as many families trace their involvement in decades or generations.

The Rangeland Derby: 100 Years of Chuckwagon Racing at the Calgary Stampede

History

Mikkelsen, Glen

Americas

John George Kootenai Brown could boast countless adventures: serving in the British Army in India, hunting buffalo on the plains of Manitoba, riding Pony Express for the U.S. Army and fighting as a staunch conservationist in the region that eventually became Waterton Lakes National Park. Follow along in this exciting account of his incredible exploits.

Kootenai Brown (Legends)

Hollihan, Tony

From California's 49ers to the Klondikers in the Yukon, men and women with a lust for fortune and adventure stampeded to the gold fields of the West. All the biggest gold rushes of the 19th-century frontier are recounted in this exciting volume.

Gold Rushes (Legends)

This book recounts the story of the great Sioux chief Sitting Bull's retreat into Canada after the Battle of the Little Bighorn. The story centers on the respect that developed between the fierce warrior and the celebrated Mountie, Major James Walsh.

Sitting Bull in Canada (Legends)

Tony Hollihan

Biographies & Memoirs

Great Chiefs Volume I and II chronicle the lives of the legendary chiefs who led their tribes through the westward expansion of white settlers in North America. Each volume contains six biographies of chiefs who became legends in their own time and remain so today for their varied accomplishments in preserving their culture and guiding their people through turbulent times. In Volume I, Hollihan tells the stories of Sitting Bull, Chief Joseph, Quanah Parker, Red Cloud, Louis Riel and Sequoyah. Both volumes are tributes to these leaders not only as extraordinary individuals but as visionaries and heroes among their people. Hollihan re-creates their lives in a narrative form. Rather than dryly relate the details of each chief's life, he has woven together dialogue and events to tell the intriguing "story" of each leader. Each story begins with one of the most significant events of the leader's history and then flashes back to the childhood of the leader and follows the chief as he attains his leadership position. Although the author includes a disclaimer that the dialogue is authentic and is fictionalized as little as possible, the books do read as easily as a good book of fiction which is to Hollihan's credit as a storyteller and historian. In an authentic and convincing manner, Hollihan introduces each leader as a compelling historical figure and encapsulates the meaningful events, accomplishments, inventions, crusades and battles of his life. These are excellent books for the academic or the casual reader who enjoys history and wishes to experience the life of a legend. With 26 b/w/ photographs, 5 maps.

Great Chiefs Volume I

Community & Culture

The North-West Mounted Police was created in 1873 by Prime Minister John A. Macdonald in order to allow the fledgling nation of Canada to assert its authority over a vast tract of land in the west purchased from the Hudson's Bay Company. That early company of mounted police faced a brutal four-month march across a harsh wilderness. This book recounts their story.

The Mounties March West: The Epic Trek and Early Adventures of the Mounted Police (Legends)

Louis Riel (Legends)

Dan Asfar

Tim Chodan

Gabriel Dumont: War Leader of the Métis (Legends)

Asfar, Dan

Chodan, Tim

Great Chiefs Volume I and II chronicle the lives of the legendary chiefs who led their tribes through the westward expansion of white settlers in North America. Each volume contains six biographies of chiefs who became legends in their own time and remain so today for their varied accomplishments in preserving their culture and guiding their people through turbulent times. In Volume II, Hollihan explores the lives of Geronimo, Tecumseh, Crowfoot, Plenty Coup, Wovoka and Crazy Horse. Both volumes are tributes to these leaders not only as extraordinary individuals but as visionaries and heroes among their people. Hollihan re-creates their lives in a narrative form. Rather than dryly relate the details of each chief's life, he has woven together dialogue and events to tell the intriguing "story" of each leader. Each story begins with one of the most significant events of the leader's history and then flashes back to the childhood of the leader and follows the chief as he attains his leadership position. Although the author includes a disclaimer that the dialogue is authentic and is fictionalized as little as possible, the books do read as easily as a good book of fiction which is to Hollihan's credit as a storyteller and historian. In an authentic and convincing manner, Hollihan introduces each leader as a compelling historical figure and encapsulates the meaningful events, accomplishments, inventions, crusades and battles of his life. These are excellent books for the academic or the casual reader who enjoys history and wishes to experience the life of a legend. With 25 b/w photographs, 6 maps.

Great Chiefs Volume II

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