In the spring of 1914 Edward Higgins brought his young wife and children on the Cariboo Wagon Road to a homestead in the wilderness of the interior of British Columbia. In 1917 a daughter was born who would prove to be as unique as her name. Noveta helped her mother with household chores from an early age but was far more interested in working with her father and in being 'as like him as I could be'.

And so she was. She homesteaded with her husband, coped with life on their homestead, and relied on her own resourcefulness and the energy that kept her going "eight ways from center." She made furniture, built barns, hunted, and 'camperized her van'. The Homesteader's Daughter is a collection of stories that flow with humour, dangerous encounters and tragedy. Read two chapters from The Homesteader's Daughter.

Harold Gangloff is a superb storyteller. His story begins on a homestead in Ontario near the Manitoba border. He tells of a wilderness farm, of will o' the wisps, and of childhood adventures that include a moonlit race with a wolf.

When the family moves to British Columbia a new world opens for Harold. From the dangers of skyline logging to a gold dredge in the Yukon to a mine in Mayo where he is seriously injured in an underground explosion, Harold tells his wonderful stories with humour and fascinating detail. His descriptions of working in a saw mill in Ocean Falls and horse logging in Northern Ontario put the reader on the spot. There are gangsters, hoboes, Holocaust survivors, and Doukhobors. He marries, slips to rock bottom with a family to care for, then finds a new life with a new set of adventures in the Cariboo, in 100 Mile House. Read two chapters from The Wanderer.

The Buffalo Man is the story of Albert Walters and his family. Defeated by the bitter wind and drought of the Depression, they leave their doomed Saskatchewan farm and travel north to a home site in the Alberta bush. After a few years on their hardscrabble farm the family leaves in a small wagon train, with eleven children, on a quest to find prosperity in BC. However, they settle on a farm in the beautiful country near Sundre, in Alberta.

Albert heads into the Yukon on historical surveys, into the Rockies on early grizzly studies and down the Mackenzie as a cook for a geological survey crew. He takes part in early Calgary Stampedes and is badly hurt in a ranch accident. He moves to BC where he obtains a permit for the first buffalo ranch in the province. The buffalo soon bring 'the world to my door'. Albert's seven sisters' unique stories and memories enrich the book with humour and insight. Read two chapters from The Buffalo Man.