This is, as the title indicates, a photogaph history of the early Canadian Rockies towns, railroads, lodgings, trails, mountain climbing, early roads, and its people.

The book is not strictly chronological, but instead, is divided into five parts. The are, listed in order; "Rails into the Wild", "The Comforts of Home", "The High frontier", "Professions and Pastimes", and "Wonder Roads".

Because it is an early history and covered an era prior to color film, the photos are black and white. Most of the photos are very nice technically and the scenic ones are also artistic with respect to lighting and composition.

Text is about 30 percent and helps document the history, not just act as captions for photos. The book is standard size in height and width so fits on a normal bookshelf. ( )