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Lethbridge, Alberta: High River Pioneers' and Old Timers Association, 1960
Leaves from the Medicine Tree : a history of the area influenced by the tree, and biographies of pioneers and oldtimers who came under its spell prior to 1900
High River Pioneers' and Old Timers Association
Table of Contents
Cover
"Reverie", Poem by W.J. Wilde
Foreword
Table of Contents
The Beginning of Things, By Maxine Chattaway
George Emerson
Tom Lynch
Jasper Buck Smith
Lafayette French and the Lemon Mine
O.H. Smith
Fred Stimson
James Crombie
Herbert Millar
The Meinsingers (Minesinger)
"Ab" Cotterell
William (Billy) Irvine
Billy Moody
John and Kate Quirk
John Sexsmith and Family
Burns' Mines
Philip Weinard
Duncan Cameron
Joseph William Short
Daniel Riley
Gervais Brothers
Ed McArthur
John Potter and Issac Pettipiece
William Wallace Conklin
W.J Bunce
Charles G. Knox
Lou and Charlie French
Mr. And Mrs. R.A. Wallace and Family
Joseph Harrison Brown
James Walter Ings
Henry Drew
William I. Ikin
George Lane
The Mont Head Ranch
Harry Squrrier
J.G. (Jack) Crawford
The Bedingfelds
The "Emerson Kid" - Mike Herman
The Sullivans
E.I.F. (Ted) Hills
Joseph Rushton Emery
Excerpts from Julia Short's Diary
Joseph Limoges
Harry Baines
The Greigs and George Sage
Mr. and Mrs. E.R. Wilder
Thomas Wilkinson Robertson
James Johnson
Ben Rankin
Blunt and Holmes
Charlie Knight
George Graham Blake
George Baker
The Sheppard Family
Herbert Eckford
Duncan McPherson
"Tex" Robarts
William Henry Sumerton
Lavers
Charlie Millar
Charles Mr. and Mrs. Russell
John Thorp
Edmund Fulton Thomson
The Thomas Hamilton Family
Early Hight River Schools
William Edward Gugy Holmes
John Wesley McLaughlin
Samuel Heslip
Fred Hicks
Alexander Peter MacDougall
"Big Bill" Smith
Harry and Hugh Robertson
James H. Monkman
Jephson, McConnell and Nichols
George Carle
Stephen Bridges
Duncan Murray
Noah and Charlie Wakeford
Levi Bradley
William H. Todd
Alexander William Hamilton Thompson
John C. Brazier
Mr. and Mrs. W.G. Hanson
Dr. Henry W. Welch
C.T. Lewis
Charlie Lehr
The Nymans, Silverbergs, Olesons and Martins
Hal and Lionel FitzHerbert
John Innis
Sergant Jebb Brown
Fred Kuck
Bert Pierson
William Henry Rice
Thomas Baird
James Stansfield
James McNeill
John A. Massey
E.F. Waldy
Paddy Green
Leigh B. Martin
William C. Gardner
Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Robertson
Walter Kesee
Bill Saunders
Percy Taylor
Jack Rivett
W.L. Christie
Frank Shier
Frank Robert Pike
Henry Smith and Ernest Tee
James Joseph Rooney
Edward Rooney
Edward Marsden
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Fleming
The Catholic Church
The Presbyterians
Polo
The Whisky Forts and Traders
"Fort Spitzee"
Dave Akers and Liver-Eating Johnson
The Spitzee Cavalry
Trading Methods
Trade Whisky
Howell Harris and Fred Kanouse
Other Posts
Dawn of a New Ara
The Whisky Runners
The Spaldings
Thomas A. Henry
Bliss Brothers
Duncan Grahame Fraser
Richard Nettles Brodrick
Charles Brown
Andy Bell
Mr. and Mrs. William Shaw Henry
Thomas C. (Paddy) Langford
Colin George Ross
Samson And Hardford
Billy Montgomery
"Captain" Horatio H. Ross
William Podger
Jim Patterson
William Summers
James Byron
Jessie H. Reoch
Henry "Scotty" Lewis
Frank Kirkaldy
The Hardwick Brothers
Henry Arnett
Leslie Simons
The Glendennings
Slippery Bill
Peter Briggs
Ezekial Stone Roberts
Mr. and Mrs. Walter J. Wake
William (Billy) Playfair
The "Circle"
Rod Redfern
Bill Pender
"Old Bill" Morgan
Snake Valley and Its Early Settlers
Races, 1891, High River Crossing
The North-West Mounted Police
William J. Alley
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Findlay
William Pollock 1854-1929
William C. MacDougall
Walter McIntosh
Charles Edgar McIntosh
Tytler and Tanner
Robert Henry Quinton
Josh S. McTavish
The Thornes
The James Bolton Family
The Briker Brothers
Allen Carr and Family
High River Pioneers
The Bond Family
Laurence A. Fowler
William Murray McIntosh
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Bricker Snider
The Cattle and the Cowmen
The Old Timer
More Arrivals
The Desperadoes
The Next Comers
1886
Heading for a New Range
General Operations
The Chuckwagon Race
The Cowboys
Death at the Police Post
Early Market
The Fall Roundup
Etiquette of the Range
The Last Great Roundup
Kenneth Cameron
Alexander McRae
Thomas Rowles and Son Andrew
Robert (Bob) Young
Mr. and Mrs. James Eberly
Hector and Dan McRae
Donald and Grace Morrison
The John Currie Family
Frank Gough
Edwin Albert Hayes
"The Last of Winter"
Bayard Leveritt Hayes
The Hamiltons
The Alexander McLeod Family
Thomas Wesley Kadey
The J. H. Wilson Family
James Garson Bews
Henry and Mary Anne Bryce
Chronology of Farming in the Okotoks - High River Area 1879-1910
The Story of The William Bryces In the West
The West of 1886
Dunbow Industrial Indian School
Robert A. Begg
Addison McPherson
The McHughs
Colonel Alfred Wyndham
Harold Banister
Mr. and Mrs. Alec S. Blackwood
A.J. Carroll
A.C. Tucker Peach
Charles W. S. Harkness
Albert Edward and Helen Mary Banister
Thomas and Flora Andrews
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Stewart
Mr. and Mrs. A.G. Stewart
James MacKenzie Andrews
The Thorburns
John Alexander Irving
The Maxwells
Some Memories of Mrs. Charlie Shattuck
Edward Cummins Quinn
Timothy Moore and Mr. and Mrs. William Wilson
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Fisk
Mr. and Mrs. J.H. Connell
Thomas Thomson
John V. Thomson
William Suitor
Frederick James McKeague
Gladys School
Mr. and Mrs. David Suitor
John Suitor
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hogge
Thomas Nash
Charles Francis Meadows
The Alex Patterson Family
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Herr
John J. Patterson
Thomas Raycraft
The John McKeage Family
Sylvester J. Brown
From the Memoirs of Ada Rowland
Travois to Track
Range Horses
Up Grading
Harnes and Draft Horses
Racing
Hunting and Other Sport
Riders
John J. Barter
John Ware, Pioneer Negro Cattlemen
Sam Howe
The Rodgers Brothers
The Linehams
Charles L. Douglass
Memoirs of Donald Gray
Donald Gray
John Cook Warren
A.P. Welsh
The Turners of Turner Valley
Malcolm T. Millar
Millarville
The Cuffling Brothers
William Donald Lineham
Joseph Deane-Freeman
Edward Johnson
Alphuse Calvin Mounkes
H.E. Denning
McAbee Brothers
Brands
Arthur Willliam (Daddy) Oaks
Guy Pallister
Edward Burke Family
Thomas John Thompson
George Scott
Walter and Agrippa Vine
Alexander and James Aird
The First of Spring
Ernest Austing Daggett
Joe Whitbread
Gilberta and Herbert Anderson
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Watt
Harry Bescoby
William Jackson
George Hoadley
The Tom Jameson Family
Christ Church, Millarville
Thomas Long
William B. Stitt
Jack Dempsey
John C. Stagg
Ted Howard
Hull Brothers
Willow Creek
From "The Leavings" North to "Gopher House"
The Gopher House
The South End
John Dawson Norrish
Fred Ings
Edwin Larkin
Mr. and Mrs. John McEwan
"Nigger" Green Walters
The Alexanders of the Two Dot
W.E. Cochrane and the "CC"
Harry Raikes
Shorty Nier
A.E. Cross
Dave Bryant
The Powder River Cattle Company
Charles Lowrie
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Mott
Duncan S. McIntosh
The Victor Ranch
William Andrews
Walter and "Nesta" Skrine
Dixon and Cameron
Walter Watt
Peter McElroy
Archie McCallum
McDermid Bros. and Duncan McCallum
Joseph McIntosh
John S. Blake
George Blake of Nanton
Westropp Brothers
Tom Boulton
Jack Graham
James McDounaugh
George Greig
John Thomas Cooper
James Norris Rankin
Hugh Murray Shaw
James Alexander (Alex) Nesbitt
John Carmichael
James Alan (Sam) Greig
Charles McKinnon
Fred G. Anderson
Alexander Robinson Greig
Joe Lamar
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Field
The Comstocks
Jake Meirs
Harry Brayne
George Winder
John Speers
William (Billy) Greig
Frank Orr
Roderick Riddle MacLeay
Joseph Birgman Watt
John Slade
H. Walter Carpenter
The Ingram Brothers
Charlie Parks
A Lady's Life On a Ranche
The North-West
Appendix
Acknowledgements
Index
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