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Buffalo

edited by John E. Foster, Dick Harrison & I.S. MacLaren

Publisher
The University of Alberta Press
Initial publish date
Jan 1992
Category
General
  • 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

John E. Foster's profile page

Dick Harrison is a retired Professor Emeritus from the University of Alberta. He currently resides in Sechelt, B.C.

Dick Harrison's profile page

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.

I.S. MacLaren's profile page

Awards

  • Alberta Book Awards - Alberta Book of the Year