The Bear and the Bone King - ein Angebot gefunden

Von Händler/Antiquariat, Wagon Tongue Books [271230], Calgary, AB, Canada.
SUBTITLED : ` Stories of the Early Days of the Medicine Hat District from the Memoirs of Will Hargrave '. Will Hargrave's father came to the Medicine Hat (Alberta) district in 1884. (His mother was a Sissons from Portage-la-Prairie.) The family had a prominent house and property called Riverside in central Medicine Hat on trhe river bank opposite town. They also had ranching interests at Plume Creek - 20 miles south of town. These 125 pages - including appendices - detail not only the family and its business interests but also the young, growing frontier `city' . TEXT assisted by b/w archive photographs. Read more about : Mary Hope Whimster, Beach Ridge Quebec, Quadrille Club, Redcliff Brick and Coal Company, Benjamin French, Frank Slide and City Bakery. Cond : Paper wrapper is rust coloured with (white or) cream coloured lettering. Front cover graphic has two photographs - one of the Bone King, and one of Nancy the Bear. Volume is tight, bright, and square - w/o flaw. Decidedly giftable !! No names, marks, creases, nor tears. Quote (p. 83) : " At times we may have had as many as 75 head of horses of various types, Clydes, Percherons, broncos, cayuses, and some half blood stock. The heavy horses were used for haying and hauling logs, fence poles, and posts from the Cypress Hills 30 miles south. The lighter horses were broke to the saddle and were ._._._. .".

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Daten vom 29.06.2017 20:17h
ISBN (andere Schreibweisen): 0-9737894-0-9, 978-0-9737894-0-9