Gateway, Alberta, 1911. The coming of the railroad to the Canadian Rockies has brought a parade of newcomers to the heavenly Bow Valley, including the poacher Herbie Wishart, who has reinvented himself as a trail guide and teller of tall tales. Herbie becomes outfitter for a fossil-hunting expedition headed by a prominent Washington, D.C., archaeologist. But when an early snowstorm hits and trailside grudges come to a head, the expedition mysteriously disappears. The tragedy threatens to stain the Rocky Mountain parks reputation just as its newly elected government overseers begin to sell the pristine Canadian wilderness to the world. Despite all efforts from that year on to solve, or bury, the mystery, the disappearance will haunt Gateway, and define the futures of Herbie Wishart and his stubbornly female descendants. -- From Publisher
Topics include: phototopography, mountaineers (Gertrude Benham, A.P. Coleman, J. Norman Collie, Charles Fay, W.O. Field, Jean Habel, George Kinney, James Outram, Hugh Stutfield, Charles Thompson, J. Monroe Thorington, Arthur Oliver Wheeler, Edward Whymper, and Walter Wilcox)
