Branwen C. Patenaude’s Trails to Gold: Roadhouses of the Cariboo provides an exhaustive spatial and architectural study of the numbered mileposts, stagecoach stations, and agricultural roadhouses that anchored the Cariboo Wagon Road. Patenaude traces how early freighting routes and colonial supply networks were superimposed directly over ancient Indigenous footpaths and fishing trails used by the Secwépemc and St'át'imc peoples along the Fraser River canyon and interior plateau. The work systematically documents each vital waypoint along the historic route—including 93 Mile, 100 Mile House, 105 Mile House, 108 Mile Ranch, 111 Mile House, 114 Mile House, 122 Mile House, 127 Mile House, 141 Mile House, and 150 Mile House—chronicling how early roadhouse proprietors managed freight barns, stagecoach relays, and blacksmith shops to supply thousands of prospectors bound for the northern goldfields. Through archival photographs, route maps, and settler family records, the narrative illustrates how these roadside waypoints fostered permanent agrarian enclaves and livestock operations around Lac la Hache and Soda Creek.

100 Mile House (B.C.), 105 Mile House (B.C.), 108 Mile Ranch (B.C.), 111 Mile House (B.C.), 114 Mile House (B.C.), 122 Mile House (B.C.), 127 Mile House (B.C.), 141 Mile House (B.C.), 150 Mile House (B.C.), 93 Mile (B.C.), Beaver Pass House (B.C.), British Columbia Cariboo Region, Cariboo (B.C.), Cariboo Wagon Road (B.C.) History, Coldspring House

Complete in two volumes: Vol. 1 (1995), Vol. 2 (1996). Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Complete in two volumes: Vol. 1 (1995), Vol. 2 (1996). Includes bibliographical references and indexes.