books.google.ca - Spurred on by reports of gold in the Cariboo, adventurers from all overthe world descended on British Columbia in the mid-1800s. Among themwere ambitious easterners who accepted the challenge of the shorter butmore arduous overland route across the prairies and the Rockies. Onesuch man determined to...http://books.google.ca/books/about/Overland_from_Canada_to_British_Columbia.html?id=EXsF9lYsAtYC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareOverland from Canada to British Columbia