Author: John PalliserPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Plains
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Solitary Rambles and Adventures of a Hunter in the Prairies
Author: John PalliserPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Plains
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Solitary rambles and adventures of a hunter in the prairies
Author: John PalliserSolitary Rambles and Adventures of a Hunter in the Prairies
Author: John PalliserPublisher: London : J. Murray
ISBN:
Category : Great Plains
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
The Dublin University Magazine
Author: Pemmican Empire
Author: George ColpittsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107044901
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Pemmican Empire explores the fascinating and little-known environmental history of the role of pemmican (bison fat) in the opening of the British-American West.
In Plain Sight
Author: Neil L. JenningsPublisher: Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
ISBN: 1897522789
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
In Plain Sighthighlights a selection of natural wonders and outdoor adventures located in southern Alberta. The places featured in this book have been chosen for their utter uniqueness, beauty and splendour. Some are easy to get to and easy to get around in; others require a bit more time and energy. Overall, you will be stimulated, enlightened, delighted, amazed, uplifted and broadened by the experience. These are truly awesome places, in the very real denotation of that adjective. All are in plain sight, though they are little visited by locals or tourists. The book contains chapters on Waterton Lakes National Park, Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park, Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park, Dinosaur Provincial Park, the Whaleback and a number of other special places. The narrative covers the geological record and the natural and human history of the places in order to explain how each locale is unique and worthy of further investigation.
Historic Hikes Around Mount Assiniboine & in Kananaskis Country
Author: Emerson SanfordPublisher: Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
ISBN: 1897522800
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
When authors Emerson Sanford and Janice Sanford Beck began backpacking together nearly 20 years ago, they often wondered whose footsteps they were retracing and how today's Rockies trails came to be there. In Life of the Trail, they share their findings with hikers and history buffs, adventurers and armchair travellers. Life of the Trail 5 details the routes in the area bounded on the north by Lake Minnewanka and the Bow River and on the west by Altrude Creek and the Vermilion and Kootenay rivers. Featuring such historical characters as Duncan McGillivray, David Thompson, George Simpson, Tom Wilson, Walter Wilcox and Bill Peyto, Volume 5 in this remarkable series also sheds light on the early days of the now world-renowned Kananaskis Country.
Sabin's Short Lists for Collectors
Author: W. W. SabinCatalogue
Author: Cadmus Book ShopPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
Prairie Fever: British Aristocrats in the American West 1830-1890
Author: Peter PagnamentaPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393084140
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
“A deeply researched and finely delivered look at what can best be described as a counterintuitive slice of American history.”—Washington Post From the 1830s onward, a succession of well-born Britons headed west to the great American wilderness to find adventure and fulfillment. They brought their dogs, sporting guns, valets, and all the attitudes and prejudices of their class. Prairie Fever explores why the West had such a strong romantic appeal for them at a time when their inherited wealth and passion for sport had no American equivalent. In fascinating and often comic detail, the author shows how the British behaved—and what the fur traders, hunting guides, and ordinary Americans made of them—as they crossed the country to see the Indians, hunt buffalo, and eventually build cattle empires and buy up vast tracts of the West. But as British blue bloods became American landowners, they found themselves attacked and reviled as “land vultures” and accused of attempting a new colonization. In a final denouement, Congress moved against the foreigners and passed a law to stop them from buying land.