Richmond P. Hobson, Jr.’s Grass Beyond the Mountains is a classic firsthand narrative recounting the late 1930s expedition to carve out a massive cattle ranching frontier in the remote wilderness of the northwestern Chilcotin plateau. Hobson and his partner Panhandle Phillips traversed hundreds of miles of rugged subalpine muskeg and timber north and west of Anahim Lake to claim the vast grasslands surrounding the Blackwater River and the Itcha and Ilgachuz mountain ranges. The narrative details the physical demands of blazing pack horse trails, building winter base camps in deep snow, and driving cattle herds across unmapped terrain long stewarded by the Ulkatcho Dakelh and Tsilhqot'in peoples. Hobson documents the vital relationships established with Indigenous guides and neighboring homesteaders, capturing the daily endurance and cooperative labor that forged the last great open-range cattle frontier in British Columbia.

Anahim Lake (B.C.), Blackwater (B.C.), British Columbia Chilcotin, Cariboo (B.C.), Charlotte Lake (B.C.), Chezacut (B.C.), Cowboys British Columbia Chilcotin Biography, Frontier and pioneer life British Columbia Chilcotin, History, Nimpo Lake (B.C.), Ranch life British Columbia Chilcotin, Tatla Lake (B.C.), Towdystan (B.C.), Ulkatcho (B.C.)

Map on lining-papers. First volume in Hobson's Chilcotin trilogy.

Map on lining-papers. First volume in Hobson's Chilcotin trilogy.