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- Fonds consists primarily of sound recordings and photographs from Kreg Sky's oral history project "Guides and outfitters of the Canadian Rockies." Recordings are forty-four interviews pertaining to guides and outfitters who worked in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta and British Columbia between 1911 …
- Date Range
- [ca.1975]-1984
- Reference Code
- M362 / S29 / V582
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- 1 / Fonds
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- 1 / Fonds
- Fonds Number
- M 362
- S 29
- V 582
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- M 362
- S 29
- V 582
- Accession Number
- 2480, 2523, 3825, 4033, 6164
- Reference Code
- M362 / S29 / V582
- Date Range
- [ca.1975]-1984
- Physical Description
- 51 sound recordings : audio tape cassettes. -- 224 photographs : prints, negatives. -- 1 textual record (8 p.)
- History / Biographical
- Kreg O. Sky, b.194-, previously known as Brian Kregosky, is a geographer and recreational consultant in British Columbia, Canada. Sky's MA thesis, 1975, was titled "Recreational and scenic analysis of a Rocky Mountain wilderness." In 1983-1984, he conducted a comprehensive oral history project titled "Guides and outfitters of the Canadian Rockies."
- Scope & Content
- Fonds consists primarily of sound recordings and photographs from Kreg Sky's oral history project "Guides and outfitters of the Canadian Rockies." Recordings are forty-four interviews pertaining to guides and outfitters who worked in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta and British Columbia between 1911 and 1972, with a focus on personalities who worked outside of the national parks between 1910 and the Second World War.
- Interviews with guides, outfitters and surviving family members include: Arthur J. Allen; Ken W. Allen; Bill Bagley; A. Jim Bagley; Mary Baher re Martin Baher; Mathias (Mike) Baher; Pete Bifano re Pete and Joe Bifano; John Boychuk; Frank Burstrom; George E. Camp; Agnes and Ray Campbell re Bert Osborne and Carl Brooks; Ishbel and Murray Cochrane and Buster and Margie Duncan re Hargreaves family; M. F.(Red) Creighton, Jud Groat and Tom Vinson; Cliff Duke; Max Ebert; Oliver Goodell; William O. Harrison; Max Hoover; Norman F. King; George E. Korsvik; Alpha Legace re Ray Legace; Rex Logan re Bob Logan; Freeman (Friday) Lonsdale; Pete Lum; Larry A. McGuire; Eugene Merrill; Cora B. Mustard re Bill Mustard; C. Vern Mustard; Hersh Neighbor; David C. Nixon re Nixon family; Owen Philipps re Frank Philipps; Felix Plante; C. Doyle Reay; James A. Riviere; Andy Russell; Leo Rutledge; Chester Sands re Clarence Sands; Floyd D. Smith; Jim Tegart re Arthur Tegart; Ken M. Thomson; Oliver Travers; Mark and Agnes Truxler; Madeline Turnor; Thomas Wilde.
- Photographs, 1914-1984, were produced and collected by Sky during the project. Included are copy negatives of photographs retained by persons interviewed during the project, some prints which duplicate the negatives, and other prints which are portraits taken by Kreg Sky.
- Fonds also includes notes (8 p.) describing the human history of the Cline and Brazeau Rivers and watersheds, formerly a portion of the White Goat Wilderness area. An edited version of these notes forms part of Sky's MA thesis, 1975.
- Name Access
- Sky, Kreg O.
- Subject Access
- Exploration, discovery and travel
- Family and personal life
- Sports, recreation and leisure
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- Reference use only
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- Language
- Language is English
- Finding Aid
- Finding aids and reference tools: sound recording summaries
- photograph list
- project documentation
- Creator
- Sky, Kreg O.
- Title Source
- Title based on accession records
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Guides and Outfitters of the Canadian Rockies
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- S29 / 1-1 Title: Guides and Outfitters of the Canadian Rockies Name: Allen, Arthur J. Interviewer: Kreg O. Sky Date: Nov. 22, 1983 Place: Quesnel Phys. Des.: Scotch 208, 5 inch reel Side 1: Swift place in Jasper. Tonquin Valley, 1926. 1929 hunting trip. Climbing Mt. Robson, 1924. The flying …
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- 1983
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- S29 / 1-1
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- 6 / Item
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- Kreg Sky fonds
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- Kreg O. Sky Sound Recording Collection
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- S29 / 1-1
- Date Range
- 1983
- Physical Description
- Scotch 208, 5 inch reel
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- S29 / 1-1 Title: Guides and Outfitters of the Canadian Rockies Name: Allen, Arthur J. Interviewer: Kreg O. Sky Date: Nov. 22, 1983 Place: Quesnel Phys. Des.: Scotch 208, 5 inch reel Side 1: Swift place in Jasper. Tonquin Valley, 1926. 1929 hunting trip. Climbing Mt. Robson, 1924. The flying Trestle (1931-32). Robson area. Climbing party to Mt. Sir Alexander (Kitchi ), 1929. Adam Joachim. Bert Wilkins. Curly Phillips: boats and operation ca. 1936; trapping; death in avalanche (1939); retrieving the body. Hargreaves family: Jack, Roy. Berg Lake trips. Brazeau Circle trip with Stan Kitchen; 1934. 40 day dude trips from Devona. Side 2: Country and wildlife north of Jasper Park. Wolf and game decline. Various trails. Trips for Jack Brewster. Some guides / outfitters in Jasper. Gib Grave Flats. George Hargreaves death / grave on Sheep Creek, 1936. Indian grave on Pauline Creek. Tuffer party to Jarvis Pass. Darryl Zanuck hunt (Willmore Wilderness), 1930. Zanuck bear hunt on Canoe/Columbia rivers, 1932 (1933?) Side 3: Zanuck hunt (cont.) Ted Abrams. Death found premature boat exit to Revelstoke. River guides mentioned. Eight Mile Canyon near Revelstoke. Four month collecting trip for Carnegie Museum (Pittsburg) 1945 + 1946. Dr. Toomey. Andrew Mellon. Cunningham trip, 1938. Cutter Laboratories (Calif.) hunting trip. Chuck Chesser, outfitter. Topographic survey of Jasper Park north boundary, summer of 1927+28. Mr. H.F. Lambart, chief surveyor. Grant Hare, packer, left first trip. Prior problems. Frank Burstrom’s supply hike. Side 4: Permits and licenses. Guiding regulations. Sheep and goat north of Jasper. Abercrombie hunting party of Jack Hergreaves. Starting his outfit, 1946. Caribou: areas and decline. Working for Jasper Warden Service 1959-71, building cabins. Fording the Smoky River. Grizzly incidents. 1931 Museum (King) party. Tent (over). Side 5: Tent fire (cont.). Harvey Crate. Buffalo horns found at Mowitch Creek and Glacier Pass. Old Indian campsites and smoke huts. Alex Nellis, Warden. Cabins and chalet at berg lake. Charley and Dan Bolen. Tom Wilde. Charley McMurtry. Stu Anderson. Rufe Neighbor. Bert Wilkins. Beaver pranks. Hersch Neighbor. Harry Phillips and grizzly attack. “Red” Creighton ran Black Cat Ranch at Brule. Fights recounted. Ranch at Hinton. Solo attempt on Mt. Robson by Mr. Waffle (1930).
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- S29 / 1-10 Title: Guides and Outfitters of the Canadian Rockies Name: King, Norman F. Interviewer: Kreg O. Sky Date: Dec. 14, 1983 Place: Golden Phys. Description: Scotch 208, 5 inch reel Side 1: Horse freighting for local mines. Getting started in guiding in 1930’s. Class A license. Advertis…
- Date Range
- 1983
- Reference Code
- S29 / 1-10
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- 6 / Item
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- Kreg Sky fonds
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- Kreg O. Sky Sound Recording Collection
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- S29 / 1-10
- Date Range
- 1983
- Physical Description
- Scotch 208, 5 inch reel
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- S29 / 1-10 Title: Guides and Outfitters of the Canadian Rockies Name: King, Norman F. Interviewer: Kreg O. Sky Date: Dec. 14, 1983 Place: Golden Phys. Description: Scotch 208, 5 inch reel Side 1: Horse freighting for local mines. Getting started in guiding in 1930’s. Class A license. Advertised in Field and Stream. Minor horse troubles. Blaeberry River: pack trail, hunting cabins, tents. Brother, Ron helped guide and cook. Mr. Linberg, Ken Jones also guided in Blaeberry Valley. More outfits appeared after WWII; ex. Sid Webber, Parker. King’s outfit had 16 horses. Bill Romaine helped. Others: Robinsons, Charley Lawrence. Guide wages. Recollections and incidents. Side 2: Bears raided his cabins. Also hunted Spillimacheen Valley. Packed for Inter. Water Commissioner on Wood River (1960’s). Boat Encampment. Drowning on Wood R. during survey. Acting in movie in 1932 for $6.50 a day. Old local guides in Golden history book.
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- S29 / 1-11 Title: Guides and Outfitters of the Canadian Rockies Name: Korsvik, George E. Interviewer: Kreg O. Sky Date: Jan 6, 1984 Phys. Description: Scotch 208, 5 inch reel Side 1: Came to Canada from Norway in 1927. Trapped and guided from Valemont, 1929 to 1936. Trap line with Ollie Lebeck…
- Date Range
- 1983
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- S29 / 1-11
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- 6 / Item
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- Kreg Sky fonds
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- Kreg O. Sky Sound Recording Collection
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- S29 / 1-11
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- 1983
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- Scotch 208, 5 inch reel
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- S29 / 1-11 Title: Guides and Outfitters of the Canadian Rockies Name: Korsvik, George E. Interviewer: Kreg O. Sky Date: Jan 6, 1984 Phys. Description: Scotch 208, 5 inch reel Side 1: Came to Canada from Norway in 1927. Trapped and guided from Valemont, 1929 to 1936. Trap line with Ollie Lebeck, Wood River – Athabasca Pass. Historic Athabasca Trail. Aswald Svendsen, Fortress Lake, 1930. Darryl Xanuck hunting trip on Canoe/Columbia rivers in 1933 (1932?). Ed Garrett, river guide. Hunter’s death. Hunters names. Guides: Art Allen, Chuck Chesser, Oliver Travers and Ted Abrams (cooks), Eric Swanson. Berg Lake dude rides. Hargreaves brothers. Stan Carr and Mt. Robson area. Side 2: Topographic surveys, Kinbasket Lake – Canoe River, 1936. Frank Swannell. Survey work: Vancouver Island, Rocky Mountains (1939). Canadian army. Relocation to Valemont. Hunting by boat in Canoe River area. Road along Canoe River. Trapping and guiding logistics. Al Huble. Curly Phillip’s river boat. Canoe River hot springs.
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- S29 / 1-12 Title: Guides and Outfitters of the Canadian Rockies Name: Legace, Alpha (Ray) Interviewer: Kreg O. Sky Date: Nov. 20, 1983 Place: Richmond Phys. Description: Scotch 208, 5 inch reel Side 1: Ray’s first tear in Banff was 1917 and later worked for Pat Brewster. English party used co…
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- 1983
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- S29 / 1-12
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- S29 / 1-12
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- 1983
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- Scotch 208, 5 inch reel
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- S29 / 1-12 Title: Guides and Outfitters of the Canadian Rockies Name: Legace, Alpha (Ray) Interviewer: Kreg O. Sky Date: Nov. 20, 1983 Place: Richmond Phys. Description: Scotch 208, 5 inch reel Side 1: Ray’s first tear in Banff was 1917 and later worked for Pat Brewster. English party used collapsible bathtub on trip. Repeat American parties. Worked with Percy Bennett, Red Cathcart, Chet Hogan, Temple, Scottie Wright, Wattie Potts. Areas hunted. Some hunting clients. Ray started on his own in 1930. Poor business during WWII. Worked summers at Lake Louise after 1940. Dr. Weibrecht (sp?) made filming trips. Peabody Museum collecting expedition at Skoki, 1951. Calgary Herald article: sleeping with a bear. Flour snow tale. Legace’s ran Skoki Lodge from 1950-63. Side 2: History of lodge management. Packed for Alpine Club, Seattle Mountaineers in Lake Louise area in 40’s and 50’s. J. Munroe Thorington made repeat trips. Rockefellers. 1929 climbing trip with Col. Amery detailed in book. Van Heek book. Some business details and factors. Dale Carnegie. Surviving the depression. Old outfitters from Banff: Pat Brewster, George Harrison, Jack Thomas, Jimmy Simpson. Elmer Jamieson. Alpha’s arrival in Banff, 1929. Sir Norman Watson. Managing Post Hotel. Ray Legacy born in 1895 (Hatzic Prairie, B.C.)
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- S29 / 1-13 Title: Guides and Outfitters of the Canadian Rockies Name: Lonsdale, Freeman ‘Friday’ Interviewer: Kreg O. Sky Date: Dec. 28, 1983 Phys. Description: Scotch 208, 5 inch reel Side 1: Burial of George Hargreaves on Sheep Creek. Description of area and trails near Sheep Pass. Used Albe…
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- 1983
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- S29 / 1-13
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- S29 / 1-13
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- 1983
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- Scotch 208, 5 inch reel
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- S29 / 1-13 Title: Guides and Outfitters of the Canadian Rockies Name: Lonsdale, Freeman ‘Friday’ Interviewer: Kreg O. Sky Date: Dec. 28, 1983 Phys. Description: Scotch 208, 5 inch reel Side 1: Burial of George Hargreaves on Sheep Creek. Description of area and trails near Sheep Pass. Used Alberta guides from Grand Cache. Eating porcupine. Guided for Jim Smith out of snowshoe (Crescent Spur)), 1926. Put in original trail up Morkill River. Trip to Jarvis Lakes via McGregor River. Fossils. Accident curtailed guiding in 1940. Jimmy Smith killed by horse in 1944. Homesteaded in 1924. Indian drying racks. Side 2:Caribou populations decline. Game along Continental Divide. Grizzly stalked him. First Camp and features on Morkill river and Forgetmenot Ck. Mustards worked out of McBride, Hookers from Dome Creek. Account of 65 day collecting trip for Peabody Museum, 1931: specimens, people, taxidermist, areas, 52 horses. Side 3: Big Shale Hill. Boundary trail. Fishing at Kakwa (Porcupine) Falls. Usually ate lunch in the saddle. A grizzly prank. Duration of most trips. Almost snowbound on the Divide. Plane wreck at Kakwa Lake. A 32 year old reunion in the wilderness with Archie Clark. Camp equipment and organization described. Side 4: Handling the horses. Clients and costs. Working on Grand Trunk Pacific Railway in 1911. Threshing in Manitoba. Floated upper Fraser River on a scow in 1912 en route to Vancouver. Took stage from Soda Creek. Interviewer’s notation.
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- S29 / 1-14 Title: Guides and Outfitters of the Canadian Rockies Name: McGuire, Larry A Interviewer: Kreg O. Sky Date: Dec. 27, 1983 Place: Vernon Phys. Description: Scotch 208, 5 inch reel Side 1: Worked for Fred Brewster at Medicine Lake, 1932. Description of Harry and Curly Phillips operatio…
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- 1983
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- S29 / 1-14
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- 1983
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- S29 / 1-14 Title: Guides and Outfitters of the Canadian Rockies Name: McGuire, Larry A Interviewer: Kreg O. Sky Date: Dec. 27, 1983 Place: Vernon Phys. Description: Scotch 208, 5 inch reel Side 1: Worked for Fred Brewster at Medicine Lake, 1932. Description of Harry and Curly Phillips operation. Brewster had 380 horses. List of outfitters operating from Jasper town site, late ‘20’s.’ Family moved there in 1924. Adam Joachim. Jasper Rodeo and Turf Club. Jack Hargreaves packed Alpine Club. Aspects of the Maligne Lake area. Worked for Stan Kitchen, 1936-38. Other guides. American hunters. Mr. A.C. Willoby (Palisades). First outfit with Red Creighton, 1945. Black Cat Ranch. North Boundary dude trip. Dennison and Britton outfitted at Mt. Robson. Side 2: Louis Delorme. Variation on North Boundary trip. George Foley, warden at Devona. Overnight horses. Advantages of Foley, warden at Devona. Overnighting horses. Advantages of pyramid and baker tents. Eddie Moberly. Harry McGuire worked for national park warden service from 1949 until his retirement.
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- S29 / 1-15 Title: Guides and Outfitters of the Canadian Rockies Name: Mustard, Cora B. (Will) Interviewer: Kreg O. Sky Date: Dec. 9. 1983 Place: Seba Beach Phys. Description: Scotch 208, 5 inch reel Side 1: Will Mustard worked for Otto Brothers (Jasper), 1917. Started family outfit at Mountai…
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- 1983
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- S29 / 1-15
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- Scotch 208, 5 inch reel
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- S29 / 1-15 Title: Guides and Outfitters of the Canadian Rockies Name: Mustard, Cora B. (Will) Interviewer: Kreg O. Sky Date: Dec. 9. 1983 Place: Seba Beach Phys. Description: Scotch 208, 5 inch reel Side 1: Will Mustard worked for Otto Brothers (Jasper), 1917. Started family outfit at Mountain Park with father (Harvey) and brother (Ray), 1920. Advertised in American Magazines. Brazeau was main hunting area. Rented saddle horses to miners. Moved outfit to Jasper, 1928. Did summer trips. Guides: Jack Denson, Bill Berry (wrangler). Vern Mustard wrangled and guided. Ray Mustard set up own outfit. Will was road foreman on Banff-Jasper Highway construction. Move to McBride in 1935. Trip with Model T Ford. Owner of Boston Red Sox was silent. Work on roads during the war. Moved to Drayton Valley. (Will Mustard born in Nebraska, 1892)
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- S29 / 1-16 Title: Guides and Outfitters of the Canadian Rockies Name: Mustard, C. Vern Interviewer: Kreg O. Sky Date: Nov. 29, 1983 Place: McBridge Phys. Description: Scotch 208, 5 inch reel Side 1: Chronological overview of Mustard family outing, ea. 1914-30, in Jasper and Mountain Park. Are…
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- 1983
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- S29 / 1-16
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- 1983
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- S29 / 1-16 Title: Guides and Outfitters of the Canadian Rockies Name: Mustard, C. Vern Interviewer: Kreg O. Sky Date: Nov. 29, 1983 Place: McBridge Phys. Description: Scotch 208, 5 inch reel Side 1: Chronological overview of Mustard family outing, ea. 1914-30, in Jasper and Mountain Park. Areas hunted out of Mountain Park. Hired help: Sid Erickson and Jack Jensen (cooks), Bill Berry, Abe Reimmer, Jamiesons (guides). Names of millionaire clients. Worked out of Jasper, 1927-35 but always hunted east and south of the park. Jack Browning outfit. Packed for Alpine Club. Length of trips and organization. Names of popular Jasper outfitters of the 1930’s. Description of Curly Phillips. Worked for Jack Brewster. 1938-43. Wages. Outfitting out of McBride,1935, was short-lived. Access route to Divide noted. Mt. Robson outfits. Area trappers (Bill Sweeney, Red Johnson) took some hunters. Noted American hunter. Business promotion. Jimmy Smith outfit. Attributes of Wilmore Wilderness areas noted.
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- S29 / 1-17 Title: Guides and Outfitters of the Canadian Rockies Name: Neighbor, Hersch Interviewer: Kreg O. Sky Date: Nov. 23, 1983 Place: Ft. St. John Phys. Description: Scotch 208, 5 inch reel Side 1: A ‘green kid’s’ first trip wrangling in 1926: A cold 40 day trip. Guided for 38 consecutiv…
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- 1983
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- Scotch 208, 5 inch reel
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- S29 / 1-17 Title: Guides and Outfitters of the Canadian Rockies Name: Neighbor, Hersch Interviewer: Kreg O. Sky Date: Nov. 23, 1983 Place: Ft. St. John Phys. Description: Scotch 208, 5 inch reel Side 1: A ‘green kid’s’ first trip wrangling in 1926: A cold 40 day trip. Guided for 38 consecutive years: included Jasper, Tete Jaune Cache, and Pink Mountain. Best game and horse country was north of Jasper. Territorial comparisons. Curly Phillips was pioneering outfitter. Indians. Hunting territories overlapped at Kakwa (Porcupine) Lake. Various geographic names in Kakwa area. Sheep Pass meadows. Clark’s crossing on Smoky River. Die-off of caribou. Side 2: Various trips in Jasper Park. . Some Jasper outfitters. Brother (Rufe) started about 1918, later partner with Bert Wilkins. Description of Curly Phillips and operation. ‘Dad’ (Ed) Neighbor. Park guide badge (1921). Otto Brothers in Jasper. Magazine article. Family move with horses, from Tete Jaune Cache to Pink Mountain in 1954. Outfitted from Pink Mountain f0r 10 years. Description of his territory: rivers, game, trails. 1906 Police trail noted. Wife’s (Eunice) involvement in operation. Side 3: Stan Russell’s death and burial on Big Shale Hill, 1951. Plaque mounted. George Hargreaves’ death and grave. Shovel superstition. Details of bear attack on Harry Phillips at Berland River; on Jack Powell at Prophet River. Blood poisoning incident on dude trip to Kakwa Lake, 1936 or ’37. A lucky wilderness operation on his leg. Changes in outfitting over the years: tents, cooking, stoves and heating, lamps, pack boxes, Game pressure and conservation today.
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