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Chargement... Cattle Kingdom: Early Ranching in Albertapar Edward Brado
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. A terrific story of early cattle ranching in Alberta describing the early ranchers, North West Mounted Police, the cattle drives from Fort Benton, Montana, cowboys, the killer storms, and the fencing of the open range from Calgary south to the border. If your ranching family settled in the Calgary to Fort MacLeod area during the late 1800s then this is the book for you. An easy writing style with all the anecdotal stories Albertans love to read about the land and combined with archival photos, make this book not your average dry history. Find out why the American Wild West never made it to Alberta. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)971.23History and Geography North America Canada Prairie Provinces, Western Canada AlbertaClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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