Ghost Town Stories Of The Red Coat Trail

Author : Johnnie Bachusky
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781926936208

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Ghost Town Stories of the Red Coat Trail by Johnnie Bachusky Pdf

The Red Coat Trail of southern Saskatchewan and southeastern Alberta runs near the route of the North West Mounted Police’s famous 1874 March West. Today, this lonely highway passes through a windswept land of ghostly abandoned towns. Johnnie Bachusky takes readers back to the heyday of these towns, which sprang up as settlers travelled west during the last great land rush. The Roaring Twenties brought bumper harvests, but also bootleggers and bank robbers; fortunes were won and lost in high-stakes poker games. The Great Depression devastated the region as disease, drought, dust storms and grasshoppers took their toll. History comes to life in these exciting true stories, from an account of a 1920s bank robbery in Manyberries to the tales of a boisterous Govenlock rancher who hunted with Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hickok.

Author : Johnnie Bachusky
Publisher : Canmore, Alta. : Altitude Pub. Canada
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Alberta
ISBN : 1551539578

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Ghost Town Stories from the Red Coat Trail by Johnnie Bachusky Pdf

The Red Coat Trail of southern Saskatchewan and southeastern Alberta runs near the route of the North West Mounted Police's famous 1874 March West. Today, this lonely highway passes through a windswept land of ghostly abandoned towns. Johnnie Bachusky takes readers back to the heyday of these towns, which sprang up as settlers travelled west during the last great land rush. The Roaring Twenties brought bumper harvests, but also bootleggers and bank robbers; fortunes were won and lost in high-stakes poker games. The Great Depression devastated the region as disease, drought, dust storms and grasshoppers took their toll. History comes to life in these exciting true stories, from an account of a 1920s bank robbery in Manyberries to the tales of a boisterous Govenlock rancher who hunted with Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hickok.

Author : Johnnie Bachusky
Publisher : Heritage Amazing Stories
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1551539926

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Ghost Town Stories II by Johnnie Bachusky Pdf

The story of towns in Alberta and Saskatchewan, built by settlers with high hopes for the future, that did not survive the struggle of the Depression and natural disasters.

Author : Johnnie Bachusky
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781926936185

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Ghost Town Stories of Alberta by Johnnie Bachusky Pdf

Today, many of the historic coal-mining communities of the Rocky Mountains are uninhabited ghost towns. Yet behind the crumbled ruins are tales of perseverance, danger and romance. A devastating mine explosion on Halloween shatters the lives of mining families in Nordegg. The miners of Mountain Park build a hockey rink still celebrated in local lore. A young immigrant couple in Mercoal establishes a successful business only to have their love story sadly cut short. These 11 dramatic and poignant ghost-town tales are sure to fascinate all who love pioneer history.

Author : Johnnie Bachusky
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781926936192

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Ghost Town Stories of BC by Johnnie Bachusky Pdf

Many of BC's old mining towns are now abandoned ruins, disappearing into the wilderness. These once-thriving towns and the pioneers who built them are remembered in 10 fascinating stories of hard work and heroism. A mine rescue worker sadly recounts a tale of death underground at Coal Creek. Three eccentric old bachelors become the final residents of Phoenix. Legends of Spanish treasure near a Vancouver Island gold-rush town persist to this day. Experience BC's colourful past in these entertaining stories from the province's vanished communities.

Author : Peter B. Smith
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 1894974840

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CSI Alberta by Peter B. Smith Pdf

Ten gripping tales of murder and missing persons show how skulls and skeletons reveal their secrets to forensic investigators. A skull is found on a scree slope high above the mirror-calm waters of Spray Lakes. Bones rumoured for years to be buried in a Medicine Hat backyard are finally dug up. The trussed and tortured skeletal remains of an unknown man are found in a septic tank near Tofield. These baffling Alberta cases show how dogged, old-fashioned detective work combines with modern forensic techniques in the search for the truth.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 1610 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Canada Imprints
ISBN : 00688398

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Canadian Books in Print. Author and Title Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Adrienne Mason
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 155153990X

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West Coast Adventures by Adrienne Mason Pdf

West Coast Adventures- Shipwrecks, Lighthouses, and Rescues Along Canada's West Coast .,." The ship began to break up almost at once and the women and children were lashed to the rigging above the reach of the sea. It was a pitiful sight to see frail women, wearing only night dresses, ...trying to shield children in their arms." - Crewman of the Valencia This book will be especially fascinating for all readers interested in: history adventure The southwest coast of Vancouver Island is a reef-studded stretch, notorious for dramatic winter storms and thick cloaks of summer fog. Many ships have found themselves well off course, even lost, during sudden storms. This book tells the stories of the sailors, lighthouse keepers, and linemen who have weathered these west coast storms.

Author : Joan Dixon
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1551539764

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Trailblazing Sports Heroes by Joan Dixon Pdf

The stories of Canadian athletes and how they changed the sports of basketball, hockey, track and field, rowing, and skiing.

Author : Irene Gordon
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1551539675

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Marie-Anne Lagimodiere by Irene Gordon Pdf

The story of Marie-Anne Lagimodiere who criss-crossed Canada in the early 1800s with her voyageur husband.

Author : Lisa Murphy-Lamb
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1551539829

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Dinosaur Hunters by Lisa Murphy-Lamb Pdf

A collection of stories about dinosaur hunters and their incredible finds.

Author : Foran Jill
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1551539896

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Vancouver's Old-Time Scoundrels by Foran Jill Pdf

The story of John Deighton, one of Vancouver's colourful characters, whose life was rife with adventure and skulduggery.

Author : Stan Sauerwein
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1551539810

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Rattenbury by Stan Sauerwein Pdf

The story of Francis Rattenbury, designer of some of BC's greatest landmarks, whose life was marred by failure and infidelity and ended in bloody murder, scandal, and suicide.

Author : Kim Mayberry
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 1551539985

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Romance in the Rockies by Kim Mayberry Pdf

The story of the romance between an East Coast society debutante and a budding artist from Banff.

Author : Stan Sauerwein
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1551539691

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Klondike Joe Boyle by Stan Sauerwein Pdf

The story of Joe Whiteside Boyle who was among the few who made a fortune in the Klondike and went onto become a master spy during World War I.