A celebration of the mountain dwellers and pilgrims, the guides, packers, wranglers and cooks, jinglers, tourists, Indians, climbers, painters, Mounties, writers, jitney drivers, photographers, poets, bears, shopkeepers, hunters and sportsmen, skiers, ne'er-do-wells, romantic fools and sweethearts who have been affected by Rocky Mountain Madness who have lived in or visited the Rockies and Selkirks of Canada and who are herein held up to a light of their own making for our delectation and observation an historical miscellany including account of occasional accomplishment accomplished adventure, adventurous rambling and rambling discourse campfire tales, newspaper accounts, reminiscences and letters. A bittersweet romance.