Range Men, The
$19.95 CAD
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"The vibrancy of the frontier flows through, refusing, like the prairie wind, to be contained . . . Cowboys, outlaws, celebrated chieftains, mere murderers, disappearing...
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Frontier Cowboys and the Great Divide
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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...
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Cowboy Cavalry, The
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When Native and Métis unrest escalated into the Northwest Rebellion of 1885, white settlers in southern Alberta`s cattle country were terrified. Three major First Nations...
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Imagine This Valley
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Featuring essays from some of the area’s most beloved personalities, this exceptional literary anthology celebrates the landscape, culture, community and natural history of Alberta’s Bow...
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Our Place
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A collection of essays and articles that reflect upon the ecology, conservation history, missed opportunities and emerging possibilities of a place that could have been...
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Writings of David Thompson Volume , The
$40.95 CAD
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David Thompson's Travels is one of the finest early expressions of the Canadian experience. The work is not only the account of a remarkable life...
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Grain Elevators: Beacons on the Prairies
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Rising above the landscape, the grain elevator heralds a time when wheat was king across the West. At their zenith, 5,758 of these prairie giants...
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Howdy, I'm Flores LaDue
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Life is tough, but so are cowgirls. This is the true story of Flores LaDue (1883-1951), ideal for ages 7-9. A world champion trick roper...
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Remember Me As You Pass By: Stories from Prairie Graveyards
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Nancy Millar learned two things as she explored Alberta's graveyards: they contain our history, and they are never boring! In this lively and unusual history...
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Cattle Kingdom
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One of the most colourful chapters in the history of North American settlement began in the 1880s when the rich Alberta grasslands spreading east from...
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Heart Waters
$40.00 CAD
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Shortlisted for the 2016 Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival award for Mountain & Wilderness Literature. “We could belong here too. We could be like...
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Beauty of the Canadian Rockies
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Featuring 60 stunning, colour photos Beauty of the Canadian Rockies is part of a new series of full-colour travel and tourism books celebrating the internationally renowned Canadian...
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Adventurous Woman Abroad
$32.95 CAD
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In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, travelling within North American borders or beyond to exotic locations was difficult at best and disastrous at...
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Policing Black Lives
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Delving behind Canada’s veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Policing Black Lives traces the violent realities of anti-blackness from the slave ships to prisons, classrooms and beyond. Robyn...
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This Wild Spirit: Women
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In 1912, Mary Vaux, a botanist, glaciologist, painter, and photographer, wrote about her mountain adventures:“A day on the trail, or a scramble over the glacier,...
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They Call Me George: The Untold Story of Black Train Porters
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A CBC BOOKS MUST-READ NONFICTION BOOK FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTHNominated for the Toronto Book AwardSmartly dressed and smiling, Canada’s black train porters were a familiar...
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The Skin We're In
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NATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2020 TORONTO BOOK AWARDA bracing, provocative, and perspective-shifting book from one of Canada's most celebrated and uncompromising writers, Desmond Cole. The Skin...
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Sources of the River - Tracking David Thompson
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The awe-inspiring story of explorer David Thompson, whose expeditions helped shape western North AmericaIn this true story of adventure, author Jack Nisbet re-creates the life...
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Original Highways
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Expanding on his landmark Globe and Mail series in which he documented his travels down 16 of Canada's great rivers, Roy MacGregor tells the story of our...
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Memoirs of a Wildcat
$24.99 CAD
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Mary Tidlund was never able to blend in, so she embraced standing out. Labelled “unadoptable” because of the colour of her skin, the odds seemed...
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The Last Viking
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"An intensely researched, thoroughly enjoyable life of one of history's best explorers...A superb biography of a fiercely driven explorer who traveled across the last inaccessible...
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A History Of Canada In Ten Maps
$23.00 CAD
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Description Author Product Details Reviews Winner of the 2018 Louise de Kiriline Lawrence Award for NonfictionEnvisioning the mysterious land that would eventually be called "Canada" through...
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Men for the Mountains
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As a park warden in the national parks of Canada's Rocky Mountains, Sid Marty came to know that beautiful and treacherous landscape as few men...
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Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek (Marty)
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In describing the true events surrounding a series of frightening bear attacks in l980, a bestselling nature/adventure author explores our relationship with the great grizzly.Many...
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Epic Wanderer
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Popular historian D’Arcy Jenish recreates the adventure and sacrifice of mapmaker David Thompson’s fascinating life in the wilderness of North America.Epic Wanderer, the first full-length...
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Bush Runner: The Adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson
$22.95 CAD
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WINNER OF THE 2020 RBC TAYLOR PRIZE • "Readers might well wonder if Jonathan Swift at his edgiest has been at work."—RBC Taylor Prize Jury...
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Beyond the Trees
$23.00 CAD
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National bestsellerA thrilling odyssey through an unforgiving landscape, from "Canada's greatest living explorer."In the spring of 2017, Adam Shoalts, bestselling author and adventurer, set off...
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Abandoned Alberta
$29.95 CAD
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A love letter to the province offering a window into the past through stunning photography.The stunning images found in Abandoned Alberta offer a window into...
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Pourin' Down Rain
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The 30th anniversary edition of Cheryl Foggo’s landmark work about growing up Black on the Canadian prairiesCheryl Foggo came of age during the 1960s in...
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Howdy, I'm John Ware
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Howdy, I’m John Ware is a children's book about Canada's legendary Black cowboy. The story, ideal for ages 6-12, brings the real-life legend to a new generation...
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Horse Woman
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Lee McLean was born to ride ... and to write. In these pages, you will enter the world of a master horsewoman and ride with...
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Vistas of the West
$29.95 CAD
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Vistas of the West is a collection of poetry and visual art that celebrates the beauty and spirit of the Rocky Mountains, Western foothills, prairie...
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Truth and Beauty in the Canadian Rockies
$50.00 CAD
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Walter J. Phillips was born in Lincolnshire, England, and immigrated to Canada in 1913 at the age of 29, after spending considerable time studying abroad...
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Ranching Under the Arch
$34.95 CAD
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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,...
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