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For 26 years Eric Collier, his wife Lillian and their son Veasy lived in the isolated Chilcotin Wilderness, homesteading at Meldrum Creek. During the early 1930s they built a log cabin and learned to survive on the land. Collier worked to restore the beaver population, fulfilling a promise to Lillian’s grandmother. His accounts describe daily life, wilderness challenges, and encounters with wildlife such as moose, cats, bears, wolves and beavers.
First publish date: 1959
Genre: Memoir/Personal Memoir
Authors: Eric Collier
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