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Author MacDonald, Graham, 1944-

Title The Beaver Hills country : a history of land and life / Graham A. MacDonald
Published Edmonton : AU Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (x, 253 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents The Character of the Beaver Hills -- Ancient Ways Between Two Rivers -- Traders, Horses, and Bison, 1730-1870 -- Visions of the Promised Land, 1870-1905 -- Conservation, Communities and Egalitarianism, 1905-1930 -- Hard Times and Good Times, 1930-1950 -- Postwar Urbanism
Summary This book explores a relatively small but interesting and unusual region of Alberta between the North Saskatchewan and the Battle Rivers. The Beaver hills arose where mountain glaciers from the west met continental ice-sheets from the east to create a complex and diverse landscape. MacDonald relates how climate, water levels, wildlife, vegetation, and fire have shaped the possibilities and provided the challenges to the people who have called the region home
Analysis Alberta history
prairie ecology
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-241) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- General.
Canada.
Regions & Countries - Americas.
History & Archaeology.
SUBJECT Strathcona (Edmonton, Alta.) -- History
Strathcona (Edmonton, Alta.) -- Biography
Subject Alberta -- Edmonton -- Strathcona
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009512244
ISBN 9781897425381
1897425384
1282819658
9781282819658
9786612819650
6612819650