Frontier cattle ranching in the land and times of Charlie Russell

Frontier cattle ranching in the land and times of Charlie Russell /

In this book Warren Elofson argues that though they lived on different sides of the 49th parallel, the first cattlemen on the western Canadian prairies and in the state of Montana shared a common history. They both forged societies composed of a different considerable number of people drawn from eas...

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Main Author: Elofson, W. M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal ; Ithaca : Seattle : McGill-Queen's University Press ; University of Washington Press, 2004
Subjects:
Russell, Charles M. > (Charles Marion), > 1864-1926.
Ranch life > Montana > History > 19th century.
Ranch life > Prairie Provinces > History > 19th century.
Frontier and pioneer life > Montana.
Frontier and pioneer life > Prairie Provinces.
Cowboys > Montana > Biography.
Cowboys > Prairie Provinces > Biography.
Artists > United States > Biography.
Ranching > Prairie Provinces > History.
Ranching > Montana > History.
Montana > Social life and customs > 19th century.
Prairie Provinces > Social life and customs > 19th century.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1 The First Eastern and European Migration
  • 2 The Pattern of Agricultural Development
  • 3 Go West, Young Man.
  • 4 The Old World in the New
  • 5 Unruly Young Men
  • 6 Rustling
  • 7 Rangeland Entertainment*
  • 8 Nice Ladies and Sporting Girls
  • 9 Where Have All the Range Cattle Gone?
  • 10 The Triumph of Ranch Farming
  • 11 Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index

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