In the Lost World of Cypress Hills
Unlike any other place in Canada, this strange mountain on the prairies harbors tropical scorpions, petrified figs, fourteen kinds of orchid and a lawless past that sparked the formation of the Mounties
March 1 1954
ROBERT COLLINS
In the Lost World of Cypress Hills
Unlike any other place in Canada, this strange mountain on the prairies harbors tropical scorpions, petrified figs, fourteen kinds of orchid and a lawless past that sparked the formation of the Mounties
ROBERT COLLINS
IN THE lonely little-known southeastern corner of Alberta, a summit called Head of the Mountain juts abruptly from the plains, forty-five hundred feet above sea level. It is the highest point in Canada between Labrador and the Rockies and it commands a spectacular eighty-mile prairie view.