More than a hundred centuries ago, campfires burned in the Rocky Mountains near the site of the mountain village of Banff. Today, tourists driving the Trans-Canada Highway west from Calgary little suspect that they follow one of the oldest trails in North America. This book traces the silent tread of mankind in the mountains, from the Paleo-Indians at the dawn of human habitation in southern Canada to the modern mountain tribes who learned to subsist and survive in the valleys of the Rockies...