Raymond Murray Patterson (1898-1984)

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Luste, George J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1991
• Subjects: Biographies; Expeditions; Explorers; History; Patterson; Raymond Murray; 1898-1984; Travels; Alberta; British Columbia; N.W.T; South Nahanni River; Stikine River; Alaska/British Columbia; Buffalo Head; Orville; Stikine; Arctic; Alaska
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64577

R.M. Patterson is recognized by many as one of the finest writers on the Canadian wilderness. While his writing skills earned him a wide and appreciative audience, he was more than a skilled wordsmith. He was also a careful and sympathetic observer, an intrepid explorer and a meticulous historian. Orville Prescott, in the New York Times, described his "Dangerous River as a modest book which betrays no indication that Mr. Patterson realizes what a remarkable man he is." . He published five books over a span of 14 years: Dangerous River (1954), Buffalo Head (1961), Far Pastures (1963), Trail to the Interior (1966) and Finlay's River (1968). .