In his most popular book, Where the Wagon Led, he compiled some poignant incidents concerning cowboy life north of the Montana border, shattering the myth that the Canadian West was peaceful and uneventful. Symons rode up to Geisner’s gate one day when two riders by the names of Preston and Myers were cutting out some young stock from a bunch that had been gelded but not branded. Symons went to the local NWMP office to mention what he had seen at Geisner’s ranch and he noticed a wanted poster on charges of horse stealing on one of the riders, Chinook Tony Mistral alias Jake Myers.