This came as a recommendation from Constant Reader: Whatcom Fish Tales: a Historical Look at the County's Seafood Industry, by Joshua Stilts. Fishing has been important to the area for a long, long time, and this is a nice history of just that. There are personal memories here, the author interviewed members of local fishing families, and, wonderful photographs from Gordy Tweit and collections in area archives.

When Keith Billington and his wife were working as nurses in the Canadian North he became interested in the story of the Lost Patrol .... mounties who had left for Dawson City in the Yukon in December of 1910 and never arrived. Sixty years later he, along with nine others, retraced that route. Unlike the Mounties, who left without ceremony, this was a media event and it is described in The Last Patrol: Following the Trail of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police's Legendary Lost Patrol. A journal was found with the bodies and entries from that offer a grim report as to what happened to the men of that lost patrol. As with House Calls By Dog Sled (March 14, 2017 post), Billington's writing can make you cold! ;-)

Death, destruction, explosions, fires, crashes ... the railway had a rough start! From a series called Horrible Histories comes Dangerous Days on the Victorian Railways, by Terry Deary. And don't forget theft, shoddy workmanship, lies and feuds ... ! Not a bad little history of a specific era. A heads up here, there are reports from a doctor as to various injuries which are vivid in the details!

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