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Cowboys, Ranchers and the Cattle Business

Cross-Border Perspectives on Ranching History

edited by Simon M. Evans

contributions by Sarah Carter, Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov, Brain W. Dippie, Bill Yeo, Alan B. McCullough, Joy Oetelaar, Warren M. Elofson, Henry C. Klassen, Max Foran, Lorain Lounsberry & Richard W. Slatta

Publisher
University of Calgary Press
Initial publish date
May 2000
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781552380192
    Publish Date
    May 2000
    List Price
    $29.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781552383193
    Publish Date
    May 2000
    List Price
    $29.95

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Cowboys, Ranchers and the Cattle Business: Cross-Border Perspectives on Ranching History is an easily accessible and comprehensive summary of current studies on the Canadian ranching frontier. This collection of essays provides an excellent perspective on the latest developments in the historiography of the range, drawing from topics such as Wild West shows, artistic depictions of the cowboy, and the economic and practical aspects of early cattle ranching.

The essays anthologized here fall into three general areas: the working cowboy, the performing cowboy and the imaginary cowboy. The academics, ranchers, poets and cowboys who authored them hail from backgrounds as diverse as history, geography, political science, and literature.

Cowboys, Ranchers and the Cattle Business makes an important contribution to the study of the ranching frontier and will continue to be of value to researchers and readers of western history, plains studies, and historical geography.

With Contributions by: Sarah Carter Brian W. Dippie Warren M. Elofson Simon M. Evans Max Foran Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov Henry C. Klassen Lorain Lounsberry Alan B. McCullough Joy Oetelaar Richard W. Slatta Bill Yeo

About the authors

Simon Evans is a former Professor of Geography at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

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Sarah Carter, F.R.S.C., is H.M. Tory Chair and Professor in the Department of History and Classics, and Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. She is a specialist in the history of Western Canada and is the author of Aboriginal People and Colonizers of Western Canada to 1900, Capturing Women, and Lost Harvests. Sarah Carter was awarded the Jensen-Miller Prize by the Coalition for Women's History for the best article published in 2006 in the field of women and gender in the trans-Mississippi West.

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Bill Yeo has retired from his position as Senior Historian and Chief of Historical and Archaeological Research for Parks Canada.

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Sarah Carter teaches history at the Univerisity of Alberta.

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Bill Yeo has retired from his position as Senior Historian and Chief of Historical and Archaeological Research for Parks Canada.

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Warren M. Elofson is professor of history, University of Calgary. He has farmed and ranched in Alberta all his life and is the author of The Rockingham Connection and the Second Founding of the Whig Party.

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Henry C. Klassen is Professor Emeritus in the History Department at the University of Calgary. His academic pursuits have long focussed on the study of Canadian business and financial history. He has recently published another book with the University of Calgary Press: Luther Holton: A Founding Canadian Entrepreneur (2001).

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Max Foran is the author of a dozen books, including The Chalk and the Easel: Stanford Perrott, Teacher?Painter; Trails and Trials: Markets and Land Use in the Canadian Cattle Industry; Roland Gissing: the People's Painter; and Calgary: Canada's Frontier Metropolis. He is a professor in the University of Calgary's faculty of Communications and Culture.

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Lorain Lounsberry is Senior Curator of Cultural History and Acting Curator of Military History at Glenbow Museum. She holds a master’s degree in Art History and during her curatorial career has contributed articles on history, art and museology to a variety of publications.

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