Harry Marriott’s Cariboo Cowboy offers a firsthand chronicle of twentieth-century open-range cattle operations across the vast plateau country of the South Cariboo. Marriott recounts his arrival from England in 1912 and his subsequent management of the sprawling OK Ranch, detailing how pastoral livestock regimes were mapped over the native grasslands and hunting territories long stewarded by the Secwépemc. The text describes seasonal roundups, branding camps, and long cattle drives across rugged trails connecting Big Lake Ranch, Lone Butte, Forest Grove, and the expansive pastures of the Gang Ranch to the railway stockyards at Exeter and 100 Mile House. Marriott’s narrative captures the physical realities of interior ranch life, preserving an indispensable account of the working cowboys, rural roadhouses, and agricultural infrastructure that defined the central interior plateau.

100 Mile House (B.C.), 108 Mile Ranch (B.C.), Big Lake Ranch (B.C.), British Columbia Cariboo, Cariboo (B.C.) Social life and customs, Cowboys British Columbia Cariboo Biography, Exeter (B.C.), Forest Grove (B.C.), Frontier and pioneer life British Columbia Cariboo, Gang Ranch (B.C.), History, Lone Butte (B.C.), Ranch life British Columbia Cariboo,

Originally published: Toronto : Ryerson Press, 1966. Includes archival photographs and index.

Originally published: Toronto : Ryerson Press, 1966. Includes archival photographs and index.