"Michael Shaw Bond – a great-great-grandson of Viscount Milton, and a London journalist – has also travelled from Winnipeg west in the footsteps of his distinguished ancestor. Hitch-hiking and walking across the prairies, searching near Prince Albert for the descendants of the natives who helped Milton and Cheadle survive their first winter, and encountering both grandeur and extreme discomfort on horseback through the mountains, Bond tackles his experience with curiosity, good humour, and a good deal of Milton’s own courage.In the process he discovers not only Milton’s trail, but much about Milton – and himself. On his Canadian adventure Milton was able to escape the pressures and expectations of his position, and come to an awareness of what he did well. So too did Bond, dealing with a difficult relationship and a time of uncertainty in his life, find in his adventure a time in which life is reduced to essentials, and priorities are clarified – through the centuries the reward of pilgrimage." -- publisher's description
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ISBN:9780771011326 (hc.)
ISBN:0771011326 (hc.)
Physical Description:print xii, 247 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Prologue -- Of Myths and Men -- The High Life -- A New World -- A Road Less Travelled -- Wild West -- Indian Winter -- The Sweet-Grass Trail -- Cowboys and Indians -- Horseplay -- When Men and Mountains Meet -- Enchanted Forest -- Deliverance -- Exile -- Epilogue
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