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The best from Alberta history / edited by Hugh Dempsey.

Title
The best from Alberta history / edited by Hugh Dempsey.
Publication
Saskatoon, Sask. : Western Producer Prairie Books, c1981.

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Additional Authors
  • Dempsey, Hugh A. (Hugh Aylmer), 1929-
  • Historical Society of Alberta
Description
ix, 211 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Alternative Title
Alberta history.
Subject
  • Frontier and pioneer life > Alberta
  • Alberta > History
Genre/Form
  • History
  • History.
Note
  • "To mark the 75th anniversary ... of the Historical Society of Alberta."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Preface -- Indian tales of the Canadian prairies / James F. Sanderson -- A blood Indian's story / Mike Oka -- Our buffalo hunts / Victoria Callihoo -- On the plains in 1872-73 / Donald Graham -- Remittance men / Frank Gilbert Roe -- Era of the big ranches / Sheilagh S. Jameson -- A lady and her ranch / Mary E. Inderwick -- The Calgary-Edmonton trail / Hugh A. Dempsey -- The "Travis Affair" / Max Foran -- Letters from a Barr Colonist / Alice Rendell -- On the Edson-Grande Prairie Trail / Harvey A. Switzer -- A Roumanian pioneer / Anne B. Woywitka -- Western vernacular / John D. Higinbotham -- The Edmonton boom of 1911-1912 / John G. Niddrie -- The 1913 provincial election / A. H. McQuarrie -- The "votes for women" movement / Paul Voisey -- Aberhart: the organization man / Harold J. Schultz -- Notes -- Index
ISBN
0888330731
OCLC
8575284
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library