Kerry was the one who started the quest and he wrote as follows, " Thanks for all your help . Your making it the "Mystery of the Month" has resulted in the solving of this mystery. One possibility is that in 1889, when Mrs. Allen was at Glacier House with other members of the Appalachian Mountain club, she may have have met F.M.Bell-Smith and commissioned a painting of the Wellhorn for her son, Samuel Allen, who was climbing in the Swiss Alps before coming to Canada in 1893 as a member of the Yale-lake Louise Club with Wilcox,et al. I'm now working on this hypothesis to see if it may be true."

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June's Unusual Canadian Rockies Name

BUCEPHALUS PEAK
In the book describing their journey across Canada in 1862, “The North-West Passage by Land,” William Fitzwilliam (Viscount Milton) and Walter Cheadle describe the horses that they acquired at Fort Garry, Manitoba for their trip. Much is made of Bucephalus, Cheadle’s horse: “Cheadles’ horse was, however, the most extraordinary-looking animal in the whole cavalcade. Bucephalus stood about fifteen hands, was straight in the shoulder, one of his legs was malformed and crooked, his head was very large, and his tail very long. On the road he was continually stumbling; and when Cheadle rode him about the settlement, he was at first nearly pitched over every gate and fence he came to. When the horse caught sight of one, he made for it, and suddenly stopping, stood stock-still, as a hint for his rider to dismount and tie him up –an illustration of the gossiping habits of his late owner. But he turned out the most useful horse of the whole number, galloping over the roughest ground after buffalo without ever making a mistake, or giving his rider a fall, and eventually carried packs over the mountains into British Columbia.”
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