Twenty six stories situated in the Canadian Rockies. McCowan's sketches of adventures of many interesting people, including himself, against the backdrop of the Canadian Rockies. 

Contents: 1). The Stone Builders. 2). A Great Canadian Diarist. 3). The Map Maker. 4). An Emperor Rode in the Rockies. 4). Black Gown. 5). The Palette of Paul Kane. 6). Pot Luck. 7). Plant Hunters. 8).Trail Blazer. 9). Rainbow Trail. 10). Pioneer Days in the Foothills. 11). Silver City. 12). Old as the Hills. 13). Father Pat. 14). Alpine Ups and Downs. 15). Dirty Work at the Crossroads. 16). Stone Dead. 17). The Big Hill. 18). Guiding Stars. 19). A Warden of the Selkirks. 20). Burden Bearers. 21). Bow Bells. 22). Yee Chow Herbalist. 23). What's Cooking. 24). Gathering of the Clans. 25). Royalty in the Rockies.

Daniel McCowan, naturalist, lecturer, writer (1882 - 1956). After an early education in Scotland, he moved to Banff, Alberta, where he soon acquired expertise on the local flora and fauna. His thousands of photographs of scenery, flowers, birds and mammals enabled him to travel widely, lecturing on nature in the Rockies, and he wrote extensively for several newspapers and popular magazines. His lectures on CBC Radio were among the first by naturalists. He was Fellow of the Zoological Society.