Tired of Edmonton’s electric signs and swaggering streets, Emily Murphy sets out along the steel the Grand Trunk Pacific is laying westward. She writes of frontier posts and railway builders, the end of steel, bitter waters, a motor trip to Athabasca Landing and the pleasures of country life, in the quick, opinionated voice she published under as Janey Canuck.
Lively sketches of the Canadian West in the making, by the woman later famous for the Persons Case. Download the free EPUB.