He produces several illustrations that are published in 1859, providing future historians with a valuable independent eye on fur-trade life. 1859 Sportsman James Carnegie, Earl of Southesk, goes hunting in the eastern Rockies. He indulges in a big-game blood bath that so delights him he later publishes a book on his exploits. The Palliser Expedition is dispatched from London to gather information unbiased by the fur traders on routes through the western mountains. The Overlanders, gold-feverish easterners from Fort Edmonton and points beyond, push through Yellowhead Pass en route to the Cariboo Mountains strike.
None makes it big.
Some never make it at all. Part of the group travels by horse, foot, and wagon through Jasper. Geologist A.P. Coleman takes his first of several cracks at finding Mounts Brown and Hooker. He tries from the west, but hunger and illness drive him back. Coleman is back.