Frontier Cowboys And The Great Divide
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Author |
: Ken Mather |
Publisher |
: Heritage House Publishing Co |
Total Pages |
: 226 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781927527092 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1927527090 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Frontier Cowboys and the Great Divide by : Ken Mather
Despite being neighbouring provinces with long ranching histories, British Columbia and Alberta saw their ranching techniques develop quite differently. As most ranching styles were based on one of the two dominant styles in use south of the border, BC ranchers tended to adopt the California style whereas Alberta took its lead from Texas. But the different practices actually go back much further. Cattle cultures in southwestern Spain, sub-Saharan Africa and the British highlands all shaped the basis of North American ranching. Digging deep into the origins of cowboy culture, Ken Mather tells the stories of men and women on the ranching frontiers of British Columbia and Alberta and reveals little-known details that help us understand the beginnings of ranching in these two provinces.
Author |
: D. Larraine Andrews |
Publisher |
: Heritage House Publishing Co |
Total Pages |
: 321 |
Release |
: 2019-05-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781772032734 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1772032735 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ranching under the Arch by : D. Larraine Andrews
A visually rich, historically epic tale of cattle ranching in southern Alberta, focusing on multi-generational family-owned ranches that are still in existence today. In the 1880s, a group of fledgling cattle ranchers descended on the plains of southern Alberta. They were drawn by the promise of the West, where the grass seemed endless and they could ranch under the arch of the Chinook-the warm Pacific wind that swooped down the eastern slopes of the Rockies to melt the snow and clear the land for year-round grazing. They came with wild optimism, but their ambition was soon tempered by the brutal reality of a frontier land. Ranching under the Arch is a tale of survival, perseverance, and prosperity in the face of struggle, loss, and loneliness. Following over a dozen ranches still in operation that have roots dating to the late nineteenth century, historian D. Larraine Andrews recounts the culture that developed around this unique vocation. These ranches have endured as vibrant enterprises, sometimes into the fifth generation of the same family, sometimes with new faces and dreams to change the focus of the narrative. Drawing from historical archives, diaries, and personal accounts, and illustrated by informative maps, fascinating archival imagery, and stunning contemporary photography, Ranching under the Arch is an epic portrait of the "Cattle Kingdom" and its place in Alberta history.
Author |
: Karina Vernon |
Publisher |
: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
Total Pages |
: 586 |
Release |
: 2020-02-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781771123754 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1771123753 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Black Prairie Archives by : Karina Vernon
The Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology recovers a new regional archive of “black prairie” literature, and includes writing that ranges from work by nineteenth-century black fur traders and pioneers, all of it published here for the first time, to contemporary writing of the twenty-first century. This anthology establishes a new black prairie literary tradition and transforms inherited understandings of what prairie literature looks and sounds like. It collects varied and unique work by writers who were both conscious and unconscious of themselves as black writers or as “prairie” people. Their letters, recipes, oral literature, autobiographies, rap, and poetry- provide vivid glimpses into the reality of their lived experiences and give meaning to them. The book includes introductory notes for each writer in non-specialist language, and notes to assist readers in their engagement with the literature. This archive and its supporting text offer new scholarly and pedagogical possibilities by expanding the nation’s and the region’s archives. They enrich our understanding of black Canada by bringing to light the prairies' black histories, cultures, and presences.
Author |
: Richard W. Slatta |
Publisher |
: University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages |
: 346 |
Release |
: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0806129719 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780806129716 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Comparing Cowboys and Frontiers by : Richard W. Slatta
Historians of the American West, perhaps inspired by NAFTA and Internet communication, are expanding their intellectual horizons across borders north and south. This collection of essays functions as a how-to guide to comparative frontier research in the Americas. Frontiers specialist Richard W. Slatta presents topics, techniques, and methods that will intrigue social science professionals and western history buffs alike as he explores the frontiers of North and South America from Spanish colonial days into the twentieth century. The always popular cowboy is joined by the fascinating gaucho, llanero, vaquero, and charro as Slatta compares their work techniques, roundups, songs, tack, lingo, equestrian culture, and vices. We visit saloons and pulperias as well as plains and pampas, and Slatta expertly compares clothing, weather, terrain, diets, alcoholic beverages, card games, and military tactics. From primary records we learn how Europeans, Native Americans, and African Americans became the ranch hands, cowmen, and buckaroos of the Americas, and why their dependence on the ranch cattle industry kept them bachelors and landless peons.
Author |
: Page Stegner |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 406 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015055856473 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Winning the Wild West by : Page Stegner
Chronicles the history of the American frontier from 1800 to 1899, discussing how the expansion into the lands west of the Mississippi influenced the nation's formation.
Author |
: David Sievert Lavender |
Publisher |
: Castle Books |
Total Pages |
: 358 |
Release |
: 2001-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0785813764 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780785813767 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Big Divide by : David Sievert Lavender
This reissue of Lavender's classic text tells the exciting story of America's bold westward expansion, man's quest for gold in the Rockies, and of the tragic banishment of the Native Americans and the ruinous and unchecked exploitation of some of America's richest land.
Author |
: Peter Boag |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 270 |
Release |
: 2011-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520270626 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520270622 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Re-Dressing America’s Frontier Past by : Peter Boag
Americans have long cherished romantic images of the frontier and its colorful cast of characters, where the cowboys are always rugged and the ladies always fragile. But in this book, Peter Boag opens an extraordinary window onto the real Old West. Delving into countless primary sources and surveying sexological and literary sources, Boag paints a vivid picture of a West where cross-dressing—for both men and women—was pervasive, and where easterners as well as Mexicans and even Indians could redefine their gender and sexual identities. Boag asks, why has this history been forgotten and erased? Citing a cultural moment at the turn of the twentieth century—when the frontier ended, the United States entered the modern era, and homosexuality was created as a category—Boag shows how the American people, and thus the American nation, were bequeathed an unambiguous heterosexual identity.
Author |
: William C. Davis |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 1992 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015028898305 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis The American Frontier by : William C. Davis
United States; History, 1809-1901.
Author |
: William Littlebury Kuykendall |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 276 |
Release |
: 1917 |
ISBN-10 |
: WISC:89077207207 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Frontier Days by : William Littlebury Kuykendall
Author |
: Ken Mather |
Publisher |
: Heritage House Publishing Co |
Total Pages |
: 226 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781894974929 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1894974921 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bronc Busters and Hay Sloops by : Ken Mather
Bronc Busters and Hay Sloops tells the story of ranching in the West from the beginning of the Great War until 1960. Cowboy soldiers, bronc busters, First Nations, upper-crust Englishmen and the strong, capable women of ranching country . . . theirs are the stories told in this book. Some of these characters are larger than life, such as: Joe Coutlee, cow boss of the Douglas Lake Ranch, whose booming voice gave him the nickname "Roaring Bill"; Grover Hance, who roped one of his men and tied him to a tree until he sobered up; Florence "Bunch" Trudeau, whose pet moose got a little too big for comfort; Ollie Matheson, one of the only women to ride in the Williams Lake Stampede's death-defying Mountain Race; Anne Paxton, who tended cattle, guided big-game hunters, ran pack horses and a ranch; Bill Arnold, who could ride "anything that wore hide." Ken takes readers inside sprawling ranches, which were self-contained communities in themselves, and small family-run homesteads scratched out of the wilderness. Like his first book on ranching history, Buckaroos and Mudpups, this is an engaging look at fascinating times and the people who made them so.