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Author : Mark Zuehlke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)
Download or read book Scoundrels, Dreamers & Second Sons written by Mark Zuehlke and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Zuehlke
Publisher : Harbour Publishing
ISBN 13 : 155017746X
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)
Download or read book Scoundrels, Dreamers & Second Sons written by Mark Zuehlke and published by Harbour Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-14 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “‘Remittance man’ was meant to be a disparaging term. It reflected the fact that these young men had been sent to the colonies to spare their families continuing embarrassment or shame. At home they had been scoundrels, dreamers, and second sons without future prospects. Perhaps in…the Canadian West they would make something of themselves. If they didn't, at least they would be far enough away that little disgrace would fall upon their families.” —Mark Zuehlke Beginning in 1880, thousands of young, upper-class British men with few prospects were sent to the Canadian West to distance them from British society. Still supported by their families, thus earning them the title “remittance men,” these men set out to continue their lives of leisure in this new land. With education, respectable breeding and the belief “from birth that they were superior beings,” the remittance men descended upon Western Canada with expectations of accomplishing something great and increasing their wealth. In reality, they hunted, played games, courted women, and enjoyed distinguished pursuits that squandered their parents' money and made hard-working Canadians raise their eyebrows. Though their era in Western Canada was short, 1880–1914, “they left an indelible mark perpetuated by the stories and legends that sprung up around them.” In Scoundrels, Dreamers & Second Sons, first published fifteen years ago, Mark Zuehlke traces the path of the remittance men through Western Canada, highlighting their adventures, limited successes and glorious failures.
Author : Mark Zuehlke
Publisher : Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781551101972
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)
Download or read book Scoundrels, Dreamers & Second Sons written by Mark Zuehlke and published by Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1880 and 1914, thousands of British remittance men came to the Canadian West, urged overseas by a rapidly changing British society. Mark Zuelke recounts their attempts to recreate the aura of landed gentry that were sometimes misunderstood -- and often ridiculed. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Lucille H. Campey
Publisher : Dundurn.com
ISBN 13 : 1459709632
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ignored but Not Forgotten written by Lucille H. Campey and published by Dundurn.com. This book was released on 2014-09-10 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her third and final book in the English in Canada series, Lucille Campey provides an overview of the great exodus from England to Canada which peaked in the early twentieth century. Drawing on wide-ranging documentary and statistical sources, Campey traces this major population movement on a region-by-region basis.
Author : Linda Cardinal
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 077660533X
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)
Download or read book Shaping Nations written by Linda Cardinal and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As questions concerning nationhood and national identity continue to preoccupy both Canada and Australia, Shaping Nations brings together the work of Australian and Canadian scholars around five core themes: constitutionalism, colonialism, republicanism, national identity, and governance.
Author : Ferenc Morton Szasz
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806132532
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)
Download or read book Scots in the North American West, 1790-1917 written by Ferenc Morton Szasz and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Scots trappers dominated the fur trade, often proving more loyal to clan than to trading company or nation. Relying on centuries of experience raising livestock for British markets, Scottish investors and managers became highly visible in the post-Civil War western cattle industry with thriving outfits such as the Swan Land and Cattle Company in Wyoming. They introduced new breeds to western ranching, such as the Aberdeen Angus, that remain popular today. Similarly, Scots herders dominated the western sheep industry, running herds of over 100,000 animals. Andrew Little's sheep ranch in Idaho was so famous that a letter addressed simply "Andy Little, USA" found its intended recipient.
Author : Gordon Errett Tolton
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
ISBN 13 : 1926936027
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Cowboy Cavalry written by Gordon Errett Tolton and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2011 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Native and Métis unrest escalated into the Northwest Rebellion of 1885, white settlers in southern Alberta`s cattle country were terrified. Three major First Nations bordered their range, and war seemed certain. In anticipation, 114 men mustered to form the Rocky Mountain Rangers, a volunteer militia charged with ensuring the safety of the open range between the Rocky Mountains and the Cypress Hills. The Rangers were a motley crew, from ex-Mounties and ex-cons to retired, high-ranking military officials and working ranch hands. Membership qualifications were scant: ability to ride a horse, knowledge of the prairies, and preparedness to die. The Rangers were resolutely prepared to fight, as mounted cavalry, should the rebellion spread. This is their story, inextricably linked to the dissensions of the day, rife with skirmishes, corruption, jealousies, rumour, innuendo and gross media sensationalizing . . . all bound together with what author Gordon Tolton terms "a generous helping of gunpowder."
Author : Warren M. Elofson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773574417
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)
Download or read book Frontier Cattle Ranching in the Land and Times of Charlie Russell written by Warren M. Elofson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2004-04-28 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Frontier Cattle Ranching in the Land and Times of Charlie Russell, Warren Elofson debunks the myth of the American "wild west" and the Canadian "mild west" by demonstrating that cattlemen on both sides of the forty-ninth parallel shared a common experience. Focusing on Montana, Southern Alberta, Southern Saskatchewan, and the well-known figure of Charlie Russell - an artist and storyteller from that era who spent time on both sides of the border - Elofson examines the lives of cowboys and ranch owners, looking closely at the prevalence of drunkenness, prostitution, gunplay, rustling, and vigilante justice in both Canada and the United States.
Author : Doris Jeanne MacKinnon
Publisher : University of Regina Press
ISBN 13 : 0889772363
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Identities of Marie Rose Delorme Smith written by Doris Jeanne MacKinnon and published by University of Regina Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marie Rose Delorme Smith was a woman of French-Métis ancestry who was born during the fur trade era and who spent her adult years as a pioneer rancher in the Pincher Creek district of southern Alberta. The Identities of Marie Rose Delorme Smith examines how Marie Rose negotiates her identities--as mother, boarding house owner, homesteader, medicine woman, midwife, and writer--during the changing environment of the western plains during the late nineteenth century.
Author : Tex Wood
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
ISBN 13 : 1897425023
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mountain Masculinity written by Tex Wood and published by Athabasca University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1906, Nello Vernon-Wood (1882-1978) reinvented himself as Tex Wood, Banff hunting guide and writer of "yarns of the wilderness by a competent outdoorsman." His homespun stories of a vanishing world, in such periodicals as The Sportsman, Hunting and Fishing, and the Canadian Alpine Journal, have much to tell us about the west as envisioned by those who wanted to leave the early 20th century behind - or at least read about others who had done so. In the writings of his persona "Tex," Vernon-Wood created an image of the frontier that blended the West of his guiding experiences with the West as a literary object. Editors Gow and Rak guide the reader with a framing introduction to the work, as well as to each article.
