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The range men: the story of the ranchers and Indians of Alberta

The range men: the story of the ranchers and Indians of Alberta

V. Kelly, L.

Paperback

Canadian HistoryAgricultureGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 9353706297
ISBN13: 9789353706296
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jun 1 2019
Pages: 526
Weight: 1.68
Height: 1.17 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
On the Alberta grasslands, fortunes were made and broken. The prairie remembers every hoofbeat. In The Range Men, L. V. Kelly turns canadian west history into a vivid, frontier nonfiction narrative of ranchers, homesteaders, and the Indigenous peoples whose lands and lives were being reshaped. Part chronicle, part eyewitness-flavoured record, this classic reprint edition follows the rise of alberta cattle ranching and western canada early ranching, set against the alberta prairies 19th century. Kelly writes with a reporter's eye for work, weather, and the hard rules of distance, while keeping the human stakes in view: indigenous-settler relations, prairie settlement stories, and the prairie frontier conflicts that marked a changing borderland. For readers who enjoy canadian pioneer memoirs and for those doing canadian history research, it offers a grounded sense of how policy, trade, and daily survival met on the open range. Its brisk storytelling welcomes newcomers, while the names, dates, and working practices provide firm ground for careful readers. Read it for the sweep of the range, then return for what it reveals about the making of modern Alberta and Canada today itself. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today; a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. A valuable window onto Western Canada's formative decades, it also belongs on the shelf of anyone seeking a western history collectors edition that honours the voices, tensions, and ambitions that shaped the plains.

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