The Beaver Hills Country - A History of Land and Life

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext This book explores a relatively small, but interesting and anomalous, region of Alberta between the North Saskatchewan and the Battle Rivers. Zusammenfassung This book explores a relatively small! but interesting and anomalous! region of Alberta between the North Saskatchewan and the Battle Rivers. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Graham A. MacDonald
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2009
• EAN: 9781897425374
• ISBN: 978-1-897425-37-4
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Athabasca University Press; Athabasca University Press; West Unbound
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)