Grass Beyond the Mountains: Discovering the Last Great Cattle Frontier on the North American Continent

by Richmond P. Hobson

Overview

Three cowhands with a dream of owning a cattle ranch make a heroic pioneer trek across uncharted mountain ranges to open up the frontier grasslands in northern British Columbia during the early 1930s.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781551997155
Publisher:	McClelland & Stewart
Publication date:	10/09/2012
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	416,361
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Richmond P. Hobson Jr. (1907-1966) was born in Washington, DC, where he worked with pack outfits, survey crews, and construction gangs, saving, all the while, to buy a cattle ranch. He came to Canada after the stock market crash of the late 1920s. He and his business partner, Panhandle "Pan" Phillips, moved to the interior of British Columbia and established the Frontier Cattle Company in the 1930s. He later married his wife, Gloria, moved to Vanderhoof, British Columbia, and continued ranching while writing about his experiences. Other books by Hobson are Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy and The Rancher Takes a Wife.