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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Ted Bishop -- Introduction -- by Andrew Gow and Julie Rak -- Fifth Avenue Pilgrims Amid the Goats The Sportsman, February 1930, 63 and 102 -- This Guiding Game The Sportsman, April 1930, 5859 and 78 -- The Last Great Buffalo Drive The Sportsman, June 1930, 75, 86 and 88 -- William, Prepare My Barth The Sportsman, July 1930, 55 and 78 -- Us Winter Sports The Sportsman, January 1931, 4445 -- Rams The Sportsman, April 1931, 6768 -- Tepee Tales The Sportsman, September 1931, 5254 and 58 -- An Early Ski Attempt on Mt. Ptarmigan Canadian Alpine Journal, vol. 21 (1932), 135137 -- Pipestone Letters No. 1 Hunting and Fishing, September 1932, 16 -- An All We Do Is Hunt National Sportsman, March 1933, 1011 -- The Latest From Pipestone Hunting and Fishing, February 1934, 11 -- Dried Spinach or Moose Steak? Hunting and Fishing, June 1935, 11 -- Tex Reads His Permit Hunting and Fishing, August 1935, 13 -- The Guide Knows Everything National Sportsman, June 1936, 1415 -- Tex: Gentlemans Gentleman Hunting and Fishing, August 1936, 14 -- Its Good to Be Alive National Sportsman, September 1936, 1617 -- Tex Takes a Trophy Hunting and Fishing, October 1936, 7 -- Sawback Cleans a Laker Hunting and Fishing, December 1936, 12 -- Sawback Changes His Mind Hunting and Fishing, April 1937, 9 -- Tex Tangles With Horribilis Hunting and Fishing, May 1937, 15 and 46 -- Navigatin for Namaycush National Sportsman, May 1937, 1415 -- Whats in a Name? National Sportsman, February 1938, 67 and 21 -- Sawback and the Sporting Proposition National Sportsman, May 1938, 14 and 26 -- The Wild Goose Chase by Ramon Chesson National Sportsman, October 1938, 1011 -- Its a Womans World National Sportsman, October 1938, 13 and 26 -- Appendix A: Tex Vernon-Wood Recollections by his grandson / John R. Gow -- Appendix B: A Gift from Grandad Vernon-Wood Recounted by his grandson / Harry W. Gow.

"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.

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