Author: Mary T.S. Schäffer. Published by Altitude Publishing, Banff, AB., 1980, 1st Edition. (4th Printing 1989) Printed in Canada by Friesen and Sons, Altona, AB. Very Good Condition SOFTCOVER Book, with cover wear, slight delam in top right cover corner, and back cover corner crease. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 11 x 8.5 inch, 151 pages.
A HUNTER OF PEACE, Mary T.S. Schäffer's Old Indian Trails of the Canadian Rockies is a reimagined and illustrated edition of a vivid wilderness memoir chronicling the author's groundbreaking pack-horse expeditions through the uncharted Canadian Rocky Mountains in 1907 and 1908.
Seeking freedom from the rigid social expectations of Victorian society, Philadelphia Quaker naturalist Mary Schäffer sets out into the rugged backcountry alongside her female companion Mollie Adams and local mountain guides Billy Warren and Sid Unwin. Together, they navigate dense timber, treacherous muskeg, and swollen glacial rivers across regions that now form Banff and Jasper National Parks. Guided by a hand-drawn map from Stoney Nakoda hunter Sampson Beaver, Schäffer's party becomes the first recorded non-Indigenous group to reach the remote waters of Chaba Imne, known today as Maligne Lake.
