In both distance and appearance, it’s far from what many would call “whitetail country.” Jagged, gray peaks extend nearly straight up from an unbroken blanket of evergreen timber. The roar of icy streams echoes across deep, dark valleys. This is the Canadian Rockies region of western Alberta and eastern British Columbia, where outdoorsmen from all over come to both find and lose themselves.
Here along the steep spine of North America is a land of elk, moose, bighorn sheep, mule deer, mountain goats, grizzly bears, wolves and cougars. And yes, even whitetails. In fact, as unlikely as it might seem, this wild backcountry gave us one of the key milestones in whitetail history.
The location was near a river in southeastern British Columbia. The year was 1905. And the hunter’s…
