Mountain MasculinityIn 1906, Nello Vernon Wood (1882 1978) reinvented himself as TexWood, Banff hunting guide and writer of yarns of the wildernessby a competent outdoorsman. His homespun stories of a vanishingworld, in such periodicals as The Sportsman, Hunting and Fishing, andthe Canadian Alpine Journal, have much to tell us about the west asenvisioned by those who wanted to leave the early 20th century behind or at least read about others who had done so. In the