Buffalo
- Publisher
- The University of Alberta Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1992
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780888642370
- Publish Date
- Jan 1992
- List Price
- $16.95
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Where to buy it
Out of print
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Description
Buffalo conjure up the West the way no other symbol can. They hold a special place in our culture and imagination. In this prize-winning collection, writers reveal the buffalo in plains ecology and culture from prehistoric times to its present and uncertain future.
About the authors
Dick Harrison is a retired Professor Emeritus from the University of Alberta. He currently resides in Sechelt, B.C.
I.S. MacLaren teaches at the University of Alberta in the Department of History and Classics and the Department of English and Film Studies. Mapper of Mountains: M.P. Bridgland in the Canadian Rockies, 1902–1930 (2005) is his biography of the Dominion Land Surveyor whose phototopographic work in Jasper in 1915 created the first reliable maps of the area and made possible, eight decades later, the Rocky Mountain Repeat Photography Project.
Awards
- Alberta Book Awards - Alberta Book of the Year