Graham A. MacDonald

The Beaver Hills Country: A History of Land and Life

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores a relatively small, but interesting and anomalous, region of Alberta between the North Saskatchewan and the Battle Rivers.

Produktdetails

• Athabasca University Press
• Verlag: Good News Meditations Kids
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Altersempfehlung: ab 22 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781897425374
• ISBN-10: 1897425376
• Artikelnr.: 25914620

Autorenporträt

Graham A. MacDonald has worked as a public historianfor the Ontario Parks Branch, the Manitoba Heritage Branch, and ParksCanada, and as a heritage planner in Winnipeg. His research includesFirst Nations history, the fur trade, and natural resource history. Helives in Victoria, B.C.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction: On the Name "BeaverHills" Chapter 1: The Character of the Beaver Hills Chapter 2: Ancient Ways Between Two Rivers Chapter 3: Traders, Horses, and Bison,1730
1870 Chapter 4: Visions of the Promised Land,1870
1905 Chapter 5: Conservation, Communities andEgalitarianism, 1905
1930 Chapter 6: Hard Times and Good Times,1930
1950 Chapter 7: Postwar Urbanism Notes Bibliography Image Sources Index