Item AAAB5688 - Mary Baher interview

RECORDED: Fernie (B.C.), 1983-12 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Martin Baher started guiding in early 1920s. Homesteading and hunting in Elk Valley. Hunting clientele. Mike Baher, brother. Used twenty-two horses and cabins. Cooked for most trips. Recollections of grizzly bear. Snowbound in Bull Valley. Observing game. Bull River hunting territories. Doyle Reay, Pete Lum, One-Armed Billy Boivin, Alex Clarkson, Chauncey Smith. Cutting trail to Conner Lakes. Bull River Valley; cabins, Hornaday Pass access. Charged twenty-five to thirty dollars per day. Her other chores. TRACK 2: Names of guides and cooks. Record trophies. Other area guides. Move to Fernie, 1929. Mike Baher guided for twenty years; Martin for forty. Elk Valley recollections. CPR cabins at Elk Lakes. Imperial (?) Mine. Respective birthplaces. Mike (Mathias) Baher's book, "The Life and Times of the Elk Valley Sourdough".;