Cowboys Gentlemen And Cattle Thieves

Author : W. M. Elofson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0773521003

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Cowboys, Gentlemen, and Cattle Thieves by W. M. Elofson Pdf

Prostitution, gunfights, barroom brawls and cattle rustling - while prevailing images from the American old West - have typically been absent from histories of the Canadian frontier. In Cowboys, Gentlemen, and Cattle Thieves Warren Elofson demonstrates that the Canadian frontier was less restrained, law-abiding, and insulated from death and violence than has been believed. He challenges traditional views that Canadian ranching society was a microcosm of the "Old World," arguing that the greatest influence on ranchers and settlers was the need to deal with the frontier environment.

Author : Warren M. Elofson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773574410

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Frontier Cattle Ranching in the Land and Times of Charlie Russell by Warren M. Elofson Pdf

In Frontier Cattle Ranching in the Land and Times of Charlie Russell, Warren Elofson debunks the myth of the American "wild west" and the Canadian "mild west" by demonstrating that cattlemen on both sides of the forty-ninth parallel shared a common experience. Focusing on Montana, Southern Alberta, Southern Saskatchewan, and the well-known figure of Charlie Russell - an artist and storyteller from that era who spent time on both sides of the border - Elofson examines the lives of cowboys and ranch owners, looking closely at the prevalence of drunkenness, prostitution, gunplay, rustling, and vigilante justice in both Canada and the United States.

Author : Mohamed Adhikari
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781782387398

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Genocide on Settler Frontiers by Mohamed Adhikari Pdf

European colonial conquest included many instances of indigenous peoples being exterminated. Cases where invading commercial stock farmers clashed with hunter-gatherers were particularly destructive, often resulting in a degree of dispossession and slaughter that destroyed the ability of these societies to reproduce themselves. The experience of aboriginal peoples in the settler colonies of southern Africa, Australia, North America, and Latin America bears this out. The frequency with which encounters of this kind resulted in the annihilation of forager societies raises the question of whether these conflicts were inherently genocidal, an issue not yet addressed by scholars in a systematic way.

Author : Christopher Armstrong,Matthew Dominic Evenden,H. V. Nelles
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773576797

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The River Returns by Christopher Armstrong,Matthew Dominic Evenden,H. V. Nelles Pdf

Alberta's iconic river has been dammed and plumbed, made to spin hydro-electric turbines, and used to cleanse Calgary. Artificial lakes in the mountains rearrange its flow; downstream weirs and ditches divert it to irrigate the parched prairie. Far from being wild, the Bow is now very much a human product: its fish are as manufactured as its altered flow, changed water quality, and newly stabilized and forested banks. The River Returns brings the story of the Bow River's transformation full circle through an exploration of the recent revolution in environmental thinking and regulation that has led to new limits on what might be done with and to the river.

Author : Sebastiaan Smit
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Veterinarians
ISBN : 9780981225302

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Visionary Veterinarian - The Remarkable Exploits of Dr. Duncan McNab McEachran by Sebastiaan Smit Pdf

Author : Michael D. Wise
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803290464

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Producing Predators by Michael D. Wise Pdf

In Producing Predators, Michael D. Wise argues that contestations between Native and non-Native people over hunting, labor, and the livestock industry drove the development of predator eradication programs in Montana and Alberta from the 1880s onward. The history of these anti-predator programs was significant not only for their ecological effects, but also for their enduring cultural legacies of colonialism in the Northern Rockies. By targeting wolves and other wild carnivores for extermination, cattle ranchers disavowed the predatory labor of raising domestic animals for slaughter, representing it instead as productive work. Meanwhile, federal agencies sought to purge the Blackfoot, Salish-Kootenai, and other indigenous peoples of their so-called predatory behaviors through campaigns of assimilation and citizenship that forcefully privatized tribal land and criminalized hunting and its related ritual practices. Despite these colonial pressures, Native communities resisted and negotiated the terms of their dispossession by representing their own patterns of work, food, and livelihood as productive. By exploring predation and production as fluid cultural logics for valuing labor, rather than just a set of biological processes, Producing Predators offers a new perspective on the history of the American West and the modern history of colonialism more broadly.

Author : William J. Pratt,Frank W. Stahnisch,Lesley Bolton
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781527542129

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Selected Papers on the History of Medicine and Healthcare (2014) by William J. Pratt,Frank W. Stahnisch,Lesley Bolton Pdf

This volume continues the Proceedings of the Calgary History of Medicine Days series which publishes the work of young and emerging researchers in the field, hence providing a unique publishing format. The annual Calgary History of Medicine Days Conference, established in 1991, brings together undergraduate and early graduate students from across Canada, Latin America, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe to give paper and poster presentations on a wide variety of topics from the history of medicine and healthcare from a multiple perspectives. The History of Medicine Days offers an annual platform for discussions and exchanges between participants regarding recent research findings, methodological perspectives, and work-in progress descriptions of ongoing historiographical projects. This book explores such topics as historical medical classics, the history of medicine in Canada, the effects of war on medicine, and historical conceptions of blood and circulation. Furthermore, it includes the paper given by the conference’s internationally renowned keynote speaker, Dr Thomas Schlich, Professor of History and History of Medicine at McGill University, Quebec. In addition, it gathers together all the abstracts of the conference for documentation purposes, and is well-illustrated with images and diagrams pertaining to the history of medicine.

Author : Robert Thacker,C. L. Higham
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9781552382042

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One West, Two Myths II by Robert Thacker,C. L. Higham Pdf

Presents scholarly views on the comparison of the Canadian and American Wests and the various methodologies involved.

Author : R. W. Sandwell
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780773547865

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Powering Up Canada by R. W. Sandwell Pdf

A comprehensive history of energy sources - from wood to nuclear - and their role in shaping Canadian society.

Author : D. Larraine Andrews
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781772032734

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Ranching under the Arch by D. Larraine Andrews Pdf

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 : Gregory P. Marchildon
Publisher : University of Regina Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780889772380

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Business & Industry by Gregory P. Marchildon Pdf

This fourth volume of the History of the Prairie West Series contains fifteen articles examining the rich history of business and early industry in Canada's Prairie Provinces prior to the Great Depression. Without denying the central importance of agriculture in the development and growth of the early Prairie West, the essays in Business and Inudstry explore the lesser known history of some of the earliest businesses in the region. As we enter the second decade of the twenty-first century, a time when the three Prairie Provinces comprise the fastest-growing, and perhaps the most dynamic, economic regions in Canada, it may be worthwhile to cast our gaze back to an earlier and simpler era. In these essays, we can glimpse the origins of the entrepreneurial spirit and business ehtos that have come to define the business culture of the Prairie West.

Author : S. M. Evans
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Bar U Ranch National Historic Site (Alta.)
ISBN : 9781552381342

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The Bar U & Canadian Ranching History by S. M. Evans Pdf

For much of its 130-year history, the Bar U Ranch can claim to have been one of the most famous ranches in Canada. Its reputation is firmly based on the historical role that the ranch has played, its size and longevity, and its association with some of the remarkable people who have helped develop the cattle business and build the Canadian West. The long history of the ranch allows the evolution of the cattle business to be traced and can be seen in three distinct historical periods based on the eras of the individuals who owned and managed the ranch. These colourful figures, beginning with Fred Stimson, then George Lane, and finally Pat Burns, have left an indelible mark on the Bar U as well as Canadian ranching history. The Bar U and Canadian Ranching History is a fascinating story that integrates the history of ranching in Alberta with larger issues of ranch historiography in the American and Canadian West and contributes greatly to the overall understanding of ranching history.

Author : Dominique Brégent-Heald
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803278844

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Borderland Films by Dominique Brégent-Heald Pdf

The concept of North American borderlands in the cultural imagination fluctuated greatly during the Progressive Era as it was affected by similarly changing concepts of identity and geopolitical issues influenced by the Mexican Revolution and the First World War. Such shifts became especially evident in films set along the Mexican and Canadian borders as filmmakers explored how these changes simultaneously represented and influenced views of society at large. Borderland Films examines the intersection of North American borderlands and culture as portrayed through early twentieth-century cinema. Drawing on hundreds of films, Dominique Br�gent-Heald investigates the significance of national borders; the ever-changing concepts of race, gender, and enforced boundaries; the racialized ideas of criminality that painted the borderlands as unsafe and in need of control; and the wars that showed how international conflict significantly influenced the United States' relations with its immediate neighbors. Borderland Films provides a fresh perspective on American cinematic, cultural, and political history and on how cinema contributed to the establishment of societal narratives in the early twentieth century.

Author : Gordon E. Tolton
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781926936611

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The Cowboy Cavalry by Gordon E. Tolton Pdf

When Native and Métis unrest escalated into the Northwest Rebellion of 1885, settlers in southern Alberta's cattle country were terrified. Three major First Nations bordered their range, and war seemed certain. In anticipation, 114 men mustered to form the Rocky Mountain Rangers, a volunteer militia charged with ensuring the safety of the open range between the Rocky Mountains and the Cypress Hills. The Rangers were a motley crew, from ex-Mounties and ex-cons to retired, high-ranking military officials and working, ranch-hand cowpokes. Membership qualifications were scant: ability to ride a horse, knowledge of the prairies, and preparedness to die. This is their story, inextricably linked to the dissensions of the day, rife with skirmishes, corruption, jealousies, rumour, innuendo and gross media sensationalizing . . . all bound together with what author Gordon Tolton terms “a generous helping of gunpowder.” Tolton’s meticulous research reveals unexplored perspectives and little-known details. Be prepared for surprises!

Author : Doris Jeanne MacKinnon
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781772123616

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Metis Pioneers by Doris Jeanne MacKinnon Pdf

In Metis Pioneers, Doris Jeanne MacKinnon compares the survival strategies of two Metis women born during the fur trade—one from the French-speaking free trade tradition and one from the English-speaking Hudson’s Bay Company tradition—who settled in southern Alberta as the Canadian West transitioned to a sedentary agricultural and industrial economy. MacKinnon provides rare insight into their lives, demonstrating the contributions Metis women made to the building of the Prairie West. This is a compelling tale of two women’s acts of quiet resistance in the final days of the British Empire.