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Mountain Masculinity: The Life and Writing of Nello ''Tex'' Vernon-Wood in the Canadian Rockies, 1906-1938

By Andrew Gow , Julie Rak , Harry W. Gow , John R. Gow

Book information

Year
2008
ISBN
1897425023, 9781897425022
LCC
GV191.42.R63 M68 2008
Open Library ID
OL24581228M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1848952 bytes)
Pages
226\236
Topic
History
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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. Editors Gow and Rak guide the reader with a framing introduction to the work, as well as to each article.

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