The Cariboo Road, Wade, Mark S. Researched, annotated, and indexed by Eleanor A. Eastick. Published by the Haunted Bookshop, Victoria, B.C., 1979. 264pp. Signed by Eleanor A. Eastick. Limited to 1000 copies, this being copy no 371. 8vo up to 9½” tall., 264pp., with frontispiece, photographs, index, and rear folding map. Red cloth boards with gilt titles. Very light toning top edge and otherwise in fine, unread condition.
Dr. Mark Sweeten Wade, was a member of the Royal Historical Society and the British Columbia Historical Society. He was also an author and a former owner of The Inland Sentinel, founded in 1880. The unpublished manuscript was written by Wade in the 1920’s where it lay forgotten in a trunk until 1976. Wade spent over forty years working in and near the Cariboo and spent many hours collecting the reminiscences of pioneers of the district. The Cariboo Road describes activities ranging from fur trading to road building, gold panning and, administrative justice.
