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R. Byron (Richard Byron) Johnson
An English adventurer turned memoirist, he wrote from firsthand experience about gold-rush-era British Columbia and the rough realities of life on the Pacific coast. His best-known book captures the mix of danger, travel, and frontier curiosity that shaped the far West in the 1860s.
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Dans l'extrême Far West: Aventures d'un émigrant dans la Colombie anglaise
by R. Byron (Richard Byron) Johnson
About the author
Richard Byron Johnson, who also published as R. Byron Johnson, is known for Very Far West Indeed: A Few Rough Experiences on the North-West Pacific Coast, first published in 1872. Available catalog and bookseller records identify him as the author of that travel memoir and related editions.
A biographical note from ABC BookWorld describes him as an English adventurer who reached British Columbia around 1862 by way of San Francisco. According to that source, he tried gold mining around Williams Creek, spent a winter in Victoria, and later returned to England, where he wrote about his experiences.
The surviving information appears to be limited, but his work stands out as a firsthand account of migration, gold-rush ambition, and everyday hardship on the nineteenth-century Pacific frontier.