Author: Gerald L. BerryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alberta
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
The Whoop-up Trail
Author: Gerald L. BerryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alberta
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
The Whoop-Up Trail
Author: Gerald Lloyd BerryHistoric Tales of Whoop-Up Country: On the Trail from Montana's Fort Benton to Canada's Fort Macleod
Author: Ken RobisonPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467146447
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Withdrawal of the mighty Hudson Bay Company from present-day Alberta and Saskatchewan created a lawless environment with new economic opportunities. A cross-border trading bond arose with growing steamboat mercantile center Fort Benton in Montana Territory. In 1870, Montana traders Johnny Healy and Al Hamilton moved across the Medicine Line and built Fort Whoop-Up. It established the two-hundred-mile Whoop-Up Trail from Fort Benton, through Blackfoot lands, to the Belly River near today's Lethbridge. Over the next decade, the buffalo robe trade flourished with the Blackfoot, as did violence. The turmoil forced the creation of Canada's North West Mounted Police, tasked with closing down the whiskey trade and evicting the Montana traders. Award-winning historian Ken Robison brings to life this dramatic story.
Historic Tales of Whoop-Up Country
Author: Ken RobisonPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439671389
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Withdrawal of the mighty Hudson Bay Company from present-day Alberta and Saskatchewan created a lawless environment with new economic opportunities. A cross-border trading bond arose with growing steamboat mercantile center Fort Benton in Montana Territory. In 1870, Montana traders Johnny Healy and Al Hamilton moved across the Medicine Line and built Fort Whoop-Up. It established the two-hundred-mile Whoop-Up Trail from Fort Benton, through Blackfoot lands, to the Belly River near today's Lethbridge. Over the next decade, the buffalo robe trade flourished with the Blackfoot, as did violence. The turmoil forced the creation of Canada's North West Mounted Police, tasked with closing down the whiskey trade and evicting the Montana traders. Award-winning historian Ken Robison brings to life this dramatic story.
The Whoop-Up Trail
Author: Gerald L. BerryPublisher: Lethbridge, Alta. : Lethbridge Historical Society
ISBN: 9780969610052
Category : Alberta
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Alberta-Montana Relationships
Author: Gerald L. BerryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alberta
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Six-Guns and Saddle Leather
Author: Ramon Frederick AdamsPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486400358
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 846
Book Description
Authoritative guide to everything in print about lawmen and the lawless—from Billy the Kid to the painted ladies of frontier cow towns. Nearly 2,500 entries, taken from newspapers, court records, and more.
Bear Child
Author: Rodger D. TouchiePublisher: Heritage House Publishing Co
ISBN: 1926936728
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The West was a lawless domain when Jerry Potts was born into the Upper Missouri fur trade in 1838. The son of a Scottish father and a Blood mother, he was given the name Bear Child by his Blood tribe for his bravery and tenacity while he was still a teen. In 1874, when the North West Mounted Police first marched west and sat lost and starving near the Canada–U.S. border, it was Potts who led them to shelter. Over the next 22 years he played a critical role in the peaceful settlement of the Canadian West. Bear Child: The Life and Times of Jerry Potts tells the story of this legendary character who personifies the turmoil of the frontier in two countries, the clash of two cultures he could call his own, and the strikingly different approaches of two expanding nations as they encroached upon the land of the buffalo and the nomadic tribes of the western Plains.
Settling the Canadian-American West, 1890-1915
Author: John William BennettPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803212541
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
This “anthropological history” tells the story of homesteading and community organization in the Canadian-American West through personal reminiscences and locally written histories. John W. Bennett and Seena B. Kohl interpret those stories through the lenses of history and social science, and they present a view of settlement experience as one phase of the evolving postfrontier society and culture of western North America. Settling the Canadian-American West, 1890–1915 contains a synthesis of Canadian and U.S. settlement experiences giving, to the extent possible, equal space to both sides of the international boundary. The experiences of people in these adjacent territories were virtually identical, with emigrant populations from the same countries and socioeconomic strata. Among other aspects of the homesteading experience, the authors explore the “interactive adaptation” that developed in the West. Networks of mutual aid, reverently remembered by the voices found in these pages, eased the inevitable hardships.
Peel's Bibliography of the Canadian Prairies to 1953
Author: Ernest Boyce InglesPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802048257
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 948
Book Description
The Prairie Provinces cover Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.