Ghost Town Stories of the Red Coat Trail: From Renegade to Ruin on the Canadian Prairies (Amazing Stories) - Softcover

Johnnie Bachusky

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1926613708 ISBN 13: 9781926613703

Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Co. Ltd., 2010

Synopsis

The Red Coat Trail of southern Saskatchewan and southeastern Alberta runs near the route of the North West Mounted Police's famous 1874 March West. Today, this lonely highway passes through a windswept land of abandoned towns. Johnnie Bachusky takes readers back to the heyday of this region, when booming pioneer towns sprang up as settlers travelled west during the last great land rush. The Roaring Twenties brought bumper harvests but also bootleggers and bank robbers; fortunes were won and lost in raucous hotels and pool halls, and high-stakes poker games went on all night. The Great Depression devastated the area. Disease, drought, dust storms and grasshoppers took their toll. Some towns simply vanished; others now contain rows of boarded-up homes and businesses. But their history comes to life in these stories. From an account of a 1920s bank robbery in Manyberries to the tales of a boisterous Govenlock rancher who hunted with Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hickok, these are compelling portraits of lost towns and the memorable characters who once called them home.

About this title

About the Author:

Johnnie Bachusky is an award-winning journalist who has explored hundreds of ghost towns across western Canada. He has been consulted for many documentaries and has written several books. In 2009 he was named Canada's Worst Handyman on the television program of the same name.

About this edition

• Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Co. Ltd.
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1926613708
• ISBN 13: 9781926613703
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128