Rocky Mountain Madness

This book is a throwback to the heyday of Victorian ambition when Banff was a rustic - albeit bucolically charming - outpost of the Empire and the streets were people with climbers, outfitters, cowboys, cooks, guides, photographers and poets. This entertaining collection of historical photographs, amusing newspaper accounts, reminiscences and letters evokes the capricious antics the mountains summoned for these people, and, to quote the authors, includes accounts of occasional accomplishment, accomplished adventure, adventurous rambling and rambling discourse.