Category Archives: Guest Posts

A Love of Adventure

Posted on April 12, 2020 by Roger Pocock

Guest Post 17. In the last half of the 19th century, if your surname was Lowther and you were male, you were most likely to be well-off, or even rich. The most famous Lowther, Hugh Cecil Lowther, the 5th Earl of … Continue reading →

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The Elopement

Posted on November 4, 2019 by Roger Pocock

or How the Cowboy Baronet acquired a nickname Guest Post 16.  How often have you picked up an old book particularly an autobiography, long out of print, and been so taken with the story that you have thought “why has … Continue reading →

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The Captain’s Table

Posted on June 3, 2019 by Roger Pocock

Guest Post 15.  Captain Ernest Hyatt was a seafarer, master mariner and adventurer who also served in what was then the Royal North-West Mounted Police and had roughed it in the tropic, temperate and arctic zones and fought in the … Continue reading →

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Life and death in Rio

Posted on April 1, 2018 by Roger Pocock

Snippets 150 / Guest Post 14.  Henry Arthur Broome was born in 1857, the youngest child of the Vicar of Houghton in Norfolk. He was the perfect example of a Victorian “rolling stone”, seldom staying more than a couple of … Continue reading →

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The Legend of “She”

Posted on March 8, 2018 by Roger Pocock

Snippets 148 / Guest Post 13. Major Tudor Trevor, known to his friends as “Toodles”, was born in 1865, the sixteenth of seventeen children. The Trevor family was Welsh and could trace its history back centuries. Trevor spent forty years living … Continue reading →

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Terrors of the Desert Trail

Posted on November 27, 2017 by Roger Pocock

Snippets 141 / Guest Post 12.  Even today, the great American deserts can be dangerous places. In 1899 when the quote below was written they were even more dangerous with wild animals and often even wilder men to be encountered. … Continue reading →

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A Victorian Hotel on Thunder Bay

Posted on November 8, 2017 by Roger Pocock

Snippets 138 / Guest Post 11.  At the time the following story took place, the author was eighteen years of age. He had been working as an assistant to a surveyor on the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway. As … Continue reading →

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The British Baronet who Vanished

Posted on November 25, 2016 by Roger Pocock

Guest Post 10: The Klondike and the Lost Baronet (Part One). The following guest post article has been kindly contributed by Geoffrey A. Pocock, author of Outrider of Empire: The Life and Adventures of Roger Pocock (University of Alberta Press) and … Continue reading →

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The Klondike and the Lost Baronet

Posted on November 14, 2016 by Roger Pocock

Guest Post 10: The Klondike and the Lost Baronet (Part One). The following guest post article has been kindly contributed by Geoffrey A. Pocock, author of Outrider of Empire: The Life and Adventures of Roger Pocock (University of Alberta Press) and … Continue reading →

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Dandyfunk and Slumgullion (Guest Post 9)

Posted on November 28, 2015 by Roger Pocock

The following guest post article has been kindly contributed by Geoffrey A. Pocock, author of Outrider of Empire: The Life and Adventures of Roger Pocock (University of Alberta Press) and One Hundred Years of the Legion of Frontiersmen (currently out … Continue reading →

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