Mountain Masculinity

The Life and Writing of Nello “Tex” Vernon-Wood in the Canadian Rockies, 1906-1938

Edited by Andrew Gow & Julie Rak
Categories: History, Canadian History
Publisher: Athabasca University Press
Ebook (PDF) : 9781897425152, 237 pages, February 2008
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Acknowledgements
Foreword - Ted Bishop
Introduction - Andrew Gow and Julie Rak

1. Fifth Avenue Pilgrims Amid the Goats
The Sportsman, February 1930, 63 and 102
2. This Guiding Game
The Sportsman, April 1930, 5859 and 78
3. The Last Great Buffalo Drive
The Sportsman, June 1930, 75, 86 and 88
4. William, Prepare My Barth
The Sportsman, July 1930, 55 and 78
5. Us Winter Sports
The Sportsman, January 1931, 4445
6. Rams
The Sportsman, April 1931, 6768
7. Tepee Tales
The Sportsman, September 1931, 5254 and 58
8. An Early Ski Attempt on Mt. Ptarmigan
Canadian Alpine Journal, vol. 21 (1932), 135137
9. Pipestone Letters No. 1
Hunting and Fishing, September 1932, 16
10. An All We Do Is Hunt
National Sportsman, March 1933, 1011
11. The Latest From Pipestone
Hunting and Fishing, February 1934, 11
12. Dried Spinach or Moose Steak?
Hunting and Fishing, June 1935, 11
13. Tex Reads His Permit
Hunting and Fishing, August 1935, 13
14. The Guide Knows Everything
National Sportsman, June 1936, 1415
15. Tex: Gentlemans Gentleman
Hunting and Fishing, August 1936, 14
16. Its Good to Be Alive
National Sportsman, September 1936, 1617
17. Tex Takes a Trophy
Hunting and Fishing, October 1936, 7
18. Sawback Cleans a Laker
Hunting and Fishing, December 1936, 12
19. Sawback Changes His Mind
Hunting and Fishing, April 1937, 9
20. Tex Tangles With Horribilis
Hunting and Fishing, May 1937, 15 and 46
21. Navigatin for Namaycush
National Sportsman, May 1937, 1415
22. Whats in a Name?
National Sportsman, February 1938, 67 and 21
23. Sawback and the Sporting Proposition
National Sportsman, May 1938, 14 and 26
24. The Wild Goose Chase by Ramon Chesson
National Sportsman, October 1938, 1011
25. It's a Woman's World
National Sportsman, October 1938, 13 and 26

APPENDIX A: Tex Vernon-Wood - Recollections by his grandson, John R. Gow
APPENDIX B: A Gift from Grandad Vernon-Wood - Recounted by his grandson, Harry W. Gow

Index

Description

In 1906, Nello Vernon-Wood (1882–1978) reinvented himself as Tex Wood, Banff hunting guide and writer of “yarns of the wilderness by a competent outdoorsman.” His homespun stories of a vanishing era, in such periodicals as The Sportsman, Hunting and Fishing, and the Canadian Alpine Journal, have much to tell us about the west as envisioned by those who wanted to leave the industrialized world behind. In the writings of his persona “ Tex,” Vernon-Wood created an image of the frontier that blended the West of his guiding experiences with the old West as imagined by those who flocked to the Canadian and American frontiers in search of adventure in an uncivilized wilderness. Editors Gow and Rak, guide the reader through this collection of Vernon-Wood's stories, providing a framework for both the writer and his alter ego, Tex.