Language: English
Published by University of Alberta Press, 1986
ISBN 10: 0888640951 ISBN 13: 9780888640956
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Language: English
Published by University of Alberta Press, Edmonton, 1986
ISBN 10: 0888640951 ISBN 13: 9780888640956
Seller: Alhambra Books, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Western Canadian Reprint series. 217 pp, b/w photos, maps. Very light corner wear. Previous owner's name inside front wrap.
Language: English
Published by University of Alberta, Edmonton, 1986
ISBN 10: 0888640951 ISBN 13: 9780888640956
Seller: Wagon Tongue Books, Linden, AB, Canada
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good ++. B/W Photographs (illustrator). First Edition. The author's father came to the Sheep Creek (Okotoks) area of Alberta in 1901 with the intention of ranching. These 217 pages tell that family ( and more broadly, provincial) tale. Text assisted by one map and a few b/w (early) photographs. Read more about: North-West Council, truckle-beds, Fort Benton, seamstresses, settlers, aspirations, Macleod, F.W.G. Haultain, Lord Dufferin, Church of England, Viewfield, Colonel Alfred Wyndham, and John Ware. Cond : Paper wrapper is cream colouured with black lettering. Front cover photograph - hand-painted - is of the Cottonwoods Ranch. Very minor edge wear. No names nor tears. Clean tight and bright, Excellent reading copy ! Quote (p. 75) : " Kildonan was the first, but by no means the last, attempt at group settlement by those of British origin. Lady Cathcart's crofters; the East London Artisans' Colony, in which that ubiquitous philanthropist Angela Burdett-Coutts was interested; Carrington Manor, an attempt to transport the life of ._._._. . " Size: 8vo.
Published by University of Alberta Press, Edmonton
Seller: Spafford Books (ABAC / ILAB), Regina, SK, Canada
1986. (Mass market paperback) Near fine. 217pp. Frontispiece, illus., maps. ".essays on "privileged settlers" who gave a distinctly British flavour to the rangelands and foothills of southern Alberta between 1882 and 1914.".
Language: English
Published by Univ of Alberta Press, Edmonton, 1986
ISBN 10: 0888640951 ISBN 13: 9780888640956
Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dj. 8vo Pp. xxv, 217.stamp marks from previous owner on half title page and verso of front cover. book.
Language: English
Published by University of Alberta Press, 1986
ISBN 10: 0888640951 ISBN 13: 9780888640956
Seller: SHIMEDIA, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
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