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Book The Pioneer Years  1895 1914

Download or read book The Pioneer Years 1895 1914 written by Barry Broadfoot and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Prairie West  Historical Readings

Download or read book The Prairie West Historical Readings written by R. Douglas Francis and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 1992 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 35 readings on Canadian prairie history includes overview interpretation and current research on topics such as the fur trade, native peoples, ethnic groups, status of women, urban and rural society, the Great Depression and literature and art.

Book The Medicine Line

Download or read book The Medicine Line written by Beth LaDow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Along the border between Montana and Saskatchewan lies one hundred miles of hard and desolate terrain, a remote place where Native and new American nations came together in a contest for land, wealth, and survival. Following explorers Lewis and Clark and Alexander Mackenzie, both Americans and Canadians launched the process of empire along the 49th parallel, disrupting the lives of Native peoples who began to traverse this imaginary line in search of refuge. In this evocative and beautifully rendered portrait, Beth LaDow recreates the unstable world along this harsh frontier, capturing the complex history of a borderland known as "the medicine line" to the Indians who lived there. When Sitting Bull crossed the boundary for the last time in 1881, weary of pursuit by the U.S. cavalry and the constant threat of starvation, the region opened up to railroad men and settlers, determined to make a living. But the unforgiving landscape would resist repeated attempts to subdue it, from the schemes of powerful railroad magnate James J. Hill, to the exploits of Canadian Mountie James Walsh, to the misguided dreams of ranchers and homesteaders, whose difficult existence is best captured in Wallace Stegner's plaintive accounts of a boyhood spent in this stark place. Drawing on little-known diaries, letters, and memories, as well as interviews with the descendants of settlers and native peoples, The Medicine Line reveals how national interests were transformed by the powerful alchemy of mingling peoples and the place they shared. With a historian's insight and a storyteller's gift, LaDow questions some of our deepest assumptions about a nationalist frontier past and finds in this least-known place a new historical and emotional heart-land of the North American West. A colorful history of the most desolate terrain in America, one hundred miles between Canada & Montana, where three nations fought over land, wealth, & ultimately survival

Book Farm Women on the Prairie Frontier

Download or read book Farm Women on the Prairie Frontier written by Carol Fairbanks and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four essays provide useful introductions to the land and the people, the history, and the fiction of the grasslands of Canada and the United States. Annotations direct readers and researchers to relevant materials in history and literature. ...An excellent bibliography...good interpretative essays...--WOMEN'S DIARIES

Book Immigration and Settlement  1870 1939

Download or read book Immigration and Settlement 1870 1939 written by Gregory P. Marchildon and published by University of Regina Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immigration and Settlement, 1870-1939 includes twenty articles organized under the following topics: the "Opening of the Prairie West," First Nations and the Policy of Containment, Patterns of Settlement, and Ethnic Relations and Identity in the New West. The second volume in the History of the Prairie West Series, Immigration and Settlement includes chapters on early immigration patterns including transportation routes and ethnic blocks, as well as the policy of containing First Nations on reserves. Other chapters grapple with the various identities, preferences, and prejudices of settlers and their complex relationships with each other as well as the larger polity.

Book Enid Yandell

    Book Details:
  • Author : Juilee Decker
  • Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
  • Release : 2019-10-15
  • ISBN : 0813178649
  • Pages : 369 pages

Download or read book Enid Yandell written by Juilee Decker and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louisville-born and nationally renowned sculptor Enid Yandell (1869–1934) was ahead of her time. She began her career when sculpture was considered too physical, too messy, and too masculine for women. Yandell challenged the gender norms of early-twentieth-century artistic practice and became an award-winning sculptor, independent artist, and activist for women's suffrage. This study examines Yandell's life and work: how she grew from a young, Southern dilettante— the daughter of a Confederate medical officer—into a mature, gifted artist who ran in circles with more established male artists in New York and Paris, such as Frederick MacMonnies and Auguste Rodin. At the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, she was one of a select group of women sculptors, known as the White Rabbits, who sculpted the statues and architectural embellishments of the fair. As a result of her success in Chicago, Yandell was commissioned to create a twenty-five foot figure of Pallas Athena for Nashville's Centennial Exposition in 1897. Newspapers hailed it as the largest statue ever created by a woman. Yandell's command of classical subject matter was matched by her abilities with large-scale, figurative works such as the Daniel Boone statue in Cherokee Park, Louisville. In 1898 Yandell was among the first women to be selected for membership in the National Sculpture Society, the first organization of professional sculptors formed in the United States. Presented to coincide with the 150th anniversary of her birth, this study demonstrates the ways in which Yandell was a pioneer and draws attention to her legacy.

Book From the Heart of the Heartland

Download or read book From the Heart of the Heartland written by John Moss and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume gathers together authors and critics to reappraise the legacy of Sinclair Ross. Beyond Ross' major novel As For Me and My House, the contributors reestablish the value of his other writings in their literary and historical contexts. Published in English.

Book Canada 2022   2023

    Book Details:
  • Author : P. T. Babie
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2022-09-29
  • ISBN : 1538165910
  • Pages : 230 pages

Download or read book Canada 2022 2023 written by P. T. Babie and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-09-29 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Today Series: Canada is an annually updated presentation of Canada. It provides the reader an in-depth look at the country’s culture, geography, people, economy, politics and future. The combination of factual accuracy and up-to-date detail along with its informed projections make this an outstanding resource for researchers, practitioners in international development, media professionals, government officials, potential investors and students.

Book Canadian Books in Print

Download or read book Canadian Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 1058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Next Year Country

    Book Details:
  • Author : Barry Broadfoot
  • Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
  • Release : 2013-07-23
  • ISBN : 1551995050
  • Pages : 534 pages

Download or read book Next Year Country written by Barry Broadfoot and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barry Broadfoot’s oral histories brought Canada’s past to vivid life. In Next-Year Country, he travelled across the prairie provinces, speaking to ordinary farmers, labourers, immigrants, and others who recall the challenges and achievements they faced as they settled and helped to build western Canada during the first half of the twentieth century. What emerges is a collection of anecdotes that celebrate the courage, independence, and indomitable spirit of westerners.

Book Catalog of Copyright Entries  Third Series

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1978 with total page 1686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Canada 2024   2025

    Book Details:
  • Author : P. T. Babie
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2024-10-31
  • ISBN : 1538185814
  • Pages : 229 pages

Download or read book Canada 2024 2025 written by P. T. Babie and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-10-31 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Today Series: Canada is an annually updated presentation of Canada. It provides the reader an in-depth look at the country’s culture, geography, people, economy, politics and future. The combination of factual accuracy and up-to-date detail along with its informed projections make this an outstanding resource for researchers, practitioners in international development, media professionals, government officials, potential investors and students.

Book Canada

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1981
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 60 pages

Download or read book Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Post Report

Download or read book Post Report written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Series of pamphlets on countries of the world; revisions issued.

Book Of Time and the Enterprise

Download or read book Of Time and the Enterprise written by John William Bennett and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New Mexico Historical Review

Download or read book New Mexico Historical Review written by Lansing Bartlett Bloom and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cattle Kingdom

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edward Brado
  • Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9781894384575
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Cattle Kingdom written by Edward Brado and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2004 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most colourful chapters in the history of North American settlement began in the 1880s when the rich Alberta grasslands spreading east from the foothills of the Rockies became the magnet for cattle ranching. Award-winning Cattle Kingdom provides readers with all the colourful tales of raffish characters, political intrigues and partnerships, fortunes made and lost, and the harsh realities of prairie winters. The era also gave us the mythic figure of the cowboy, still prominent in Alberta today. Nowhere is the story of ranching more rich and varied than in Alberta. There was an assortment of high rollers, big-money men from the east, English lords and remittance men, along with refugees from the American west and ordinary folk seeking a homestead and a new dream. The newly formed North West Mounted Police was on hand as well. Famous ranches were created during this period, including the Cochrane, the Oxley and the North West Cattle Company (Bar U). The cast of characters included John Ware; the brave and foolhardy Major-General Thomas Bland Strange, who had plans for a ranch for retired British army types; and the scrappy Pat Burns, who parlayed a small slaughterhouse in Calgary into a giant meat-packing and cattle empire. By the time of the first Calgary Stampede in 1912, the cattle kingdom was on the wane. More and more settlers arrived and began fencing and farming the once limitless grazing lands. And then came the discovery of oil. But during its brief and brilliant season in the sun, early ranching in Alberta put an indelible stamp on the history and culture of the Canadian west.