Timberline Tales: Folklore in Verse of the Canadian Rockies. Rev. ed.

Don Precosky teaches English at the College of New Caledonia and is the
co-editor of Four Realities: Poets of Northern B.C.

Timberline Tales is a book of verse done in the popular tradition of
Service or Kipling. It tells tales of brave men, mostly camp wardens, as
they battle the elements and each other in the Alberta Rockies. It’s
all macho and proud of it: “Have you ever yearned / for a pint of beer
/ ’til it almost drove you nuts? / And nothing’d quench / the
hellish fire / which smouldered in your guts!” (“A Birthday I
Remember”).

This book would make a good souvenir for tourists, the kind of thing
sold in a gift shop in Banff as a memento of a vacation trip. You may
never read it all the way through, but it will always be there on the
shelf to remind you of your trip to the mountains.