{"product_id":"the-rainbow-chasers","title":"The Rainbow Chasers","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis first-hand account of a Canadian pioneer the next title in TouchWoods Classics West series tells the story of a hard-won wilderness home and of the self-sufficient father and brothers who built it. Their tale of wanderlust begins in 1839 in Bytown  Ontario (later called Ottawa)  with father Archie MacDonald  who reached his peak as an Ottawa Valley bull of the woods by age 29  prospected for silver and gold from Leadville  Colorado  to Sonora  Mexico  drove Montana cattle to the remote CPR camps in B.C. and carved out a ranch near Fort Colville  Washington. Ervin was motherless by age four  and he and his brothers and sisters were sent to an orphanage. He was reunited with his father when he was 13  and the MacDonalds homesteaded southeast of booming Edmonton. But the prairie disagreed with the mountain man in Archie  who dreamed of the Cariboo. Thus he and his teenage sons embarked on a pack journey across the Rockies via the Yellowhead Pass without map or compass  and using makeshift rafts to cross rivers in search of the special site that would become their home: Lac des Roches in the Bridge Lake area of the Cariboo.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44944968351797,"sku":"ByrdShop_1894898303","price":94.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781894898300_6c2b37f9-a99a-4cce-8d8c-92e2aeecc630.jpg?v=1770164547","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-rainbow-chasers","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}