The story of Barney May, pioneer
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is part of: British Columbia Historical Books Collection
creator: Baird, George M. P. (George Mahaffey Patterson)
issued: 2017-04-05
issued: 1917
description: "One chapter about Barney May's life in the Cariboo in the early 1860's." -- Lowther, B. J., & Laing, M. (1968). A bibliography of British Columbia: Laying the foundations, 1849-1899. Victoria, BC: University of Victoria, p. 178.
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extent: 61 pages : photographs ; 26 cm
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note: DEDICATION TO THE UNSUNG MAKERS OF AMERICA THIS LITTLE BOOK IS DEDICATED « M CONTENTS PAGE rNTRODUCTION I EBELSBACH . 5 BOYHOOD TO THE NEW WORLD 14 WITH PEDLER PACK 19 THE LOWER PROVINCE 2$ THE CARIBOU . . 27 A PILGRIMAGE OF PAIN 37 MARRIAGE 40 PITTSBURGH 45 LATER DAYS . 53 AN AFTERWORD 57 NOTES 6l Di^RODuarioH THE most fascinating pages of history are those which deal with the movements of tribes and races from their ancestral ter* ritories to new lands. The tales of great migrations—folk wanderings, whether born of economic pressure at home or the lure of promised happiness in some unknown, distant country—awake in us the racial memories of that pioneer spirit which led our ancient fathers to make them, and hearten us to essay fresh adventures on the faint trails that lead to new accomplishment in the upward struggle of mankind. In the older chronicles of the race, we are happy if we can discover so much as a vague picture of the ethnic flux; often little more than a tissue of possibilities, a hopeful assumption, fashioned mosaiclike from vague hints and unproved shadowings gathered from many diverse sources by the patient industry of laborious research. Occasionally we get a glimpse of a leader-hero, some Abad, Herakles, Thor or Romulus, dimly emerging from a cloud of ancient myth, or of some legendary captain, a Moses, a Jimmu Tenno, an Alexander, an Attila, a Kublai Khan; but of the units who formed the rank and file of the moving hordes, of their motives, their actions and their aspirations we know nothing. This, however, does not yet hold true of modern migrations. Whether because we are Page One ^ closer to it in time or because geographical limits have been narrowed and the machinery of report and record has been elaborated, the history of the settlement of America is much less the story of groups and much more the narrative of individuals than is that of any other era of race redistribution and colonisa' tion known to us. To the student of social history a…
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has type: Books
identifier: F154.M466 B579 1917
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0343629
language: English
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Pittsburgh : The Aldine Press
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source: Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. Rare Books and Special Collections. F154.M466 B579 1917
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