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Guides and Outfitters of the Canadian Rockies
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- Part Of
- Kreg Sky fonds
- Scope & Content
- S29 / 1-24 Title: Guides and Outfitters of the Canadian Rockies Name: Tegart, James H.S. Interviewer: Kreg O. Sky Date: Dec. 15, 1983 Place: Brisco Phys. Description: Scotch 208, 5 inch reel Side 1: Arthur Teghart homesteading at Windermere in 1886; guided hunters in early 1900’s. Guiding sup…
- Date Range
- 1983
- Reference Code
- S29 / 1-24
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- Part Of
- Kreg Sky fonds
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- Fonds Number
- S29
- Series
- Kreg O. Sky Sound Recording Collection
- Sous-Fonds
- S29
- Reference Code
- S29 / 1-24
- Date Range
- 1983
- Physical Description
- Scotch 208, 5 inch reel
- Scope & Content
- S29 / 1-24 Title: Guides and Outfitters of the Canadian Rockies Name: Tegart, James H.S. Interviewer: Kreg O. Sky Date: Dec. 15, 1983 Place: Brisco Phys. Description: Scotch 208, 5 inch reel Side 1: Arthur Teghart homesteading at Windermere in 1886; guided hunters in early 1900’s. Guiding supplemented farm income. (Bob, Buster), continued family outfit after 1925. Jim Tegart started about 1929; own outfit in 1943. Used wild horses in pack string (total 40). Areas hunted. Built trail in Squaw. Lodgepole, Marion creeks, White River. Indian hunting trail from Kananaskis. Game roads and decline. Tegart Pass and mountain. Jim Thompson guided. Tents reverted to cabins (on Albert River, Tipperary Falls, Queen Mark Creek). Frequent fly-camping. Names of ole-time game wardens. Side 2: Albertans hunted the Palliser. Austrian hunters. Woman hunter, 69 years old. Lost-supplies fording river. Doreen cooked for most parties an all-day job. Daughters have cooked, sons did guiding. Old area outfitters: Jim and Gordon McKay (upper Kootenay, Beaverfoot), Bill Harrison (Alpine Club). Big Bend highway work. Banff-Jasper highway packing. Rode a horse to death. Hunted Purcell Mountains. One-armed hunter.
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