Tony Rees, former supervisor of the City of Toronto Archives, moved west to become Calgary’s first city archivist in 1981, then chief archivist of Calgary’s Glenbow Museum from 1985 to 1993. He is the author of Hope’s Last Home: Travels in Milk River Country and Polo: The Galloping Game. He lives in Geneva, Switzerland.
A dramatic account of the hardships endured by American and Canadian teams from 1872 to 1874 as they battled the elements to survey nearly nine hundred miles of the world’s longest undefended border.