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Outrider of Empire
The Life and Adventures of Roger Pocock
ISBN: 9780888644480
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Edition: illustrated edition
By 1899, when Roger Pocock embarked on a record-setting journey from Alberta to Mexico City along the infamous American Outlaw Trail, he had already been a missionary, a pirate, a soldier and a cowboy…
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A dreamer of dreams, an adventurer, and a man of many ideas, Roger Pocock was an inveterate, world-ranging traveller who lived the life that all adventurous boys desire. He listened with wonder to the stories of all those he met, be they outlaws like Butch Cassidy, ranchers, or mounted police. Readers of all ages and classes eagerly devoured Pocock's western tales. "Outrider of Empire" is a testament to a prolific author and extraordinary man whose friends and acquaintances bridged the worlds of theatre, literature, the military, and science.
