Frontier Days in Alberta
- Publisher
- Sunfire Publications Limited
- Initial publish date
- May 1992
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780919531345
- Publish Date
- May 1992
- List Price
- $15.95
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Description
Oversize paperback with fourteen historical vignettes of early Alberta. Illustrated with colour and B&W photos and pictures. Stories included: The Last Great Indian Battle, The Tragedy of the American Buffalo, The Picture of Health, Jerry Potts: Frontier Scout, Writing-On-Stone, Canals of Southern Alberta, Disaster at Frank, Coal Dust Days in Canmore, Stern-Wheelers on the Saskatchewan, Blue Coated Mounties, Alex Monkman's Dream, Disaster at the Hillcrest Mine, Kootenai Brown: Frontiersman, The Phantom Train of Medicine Hat.
About the author
Garnet Basque (1945-1994) operated Canadian West magazine from 1985 to 1994, as well as Sunfire Publications in Langley, BC. He published numerous titles about lost treasures and frontier settlements under various imprints.