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  • The O'Keefes of O'Kanagan

    The Families of O'Keefe Ranch

    par Ron Stuart ...
    The tumultuous rags-to-riches story of the famed O’Keefe ranching family.Founded in 1867, the Historic O’Keefe Ranch offers a fascinating glimpse into the life of an early farming community in the heart of the Okanagan Valley. The O’Keefes of O’kanagan, a welcome resource for any visitor to the site, is an in-depth look into the multiple branches and generations of the family that gave the ranch ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • Stagecoach North

    A History of Barnard's Express

    par Ron Stuart ...
    An in-depth look at the origins and operations of a pioneering transportation company that moved people and goods across the province throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.At the height of the Cariboo Gold Rush, demand for an efficient transportation route to and from the goldfields was reaching a point of desperation. With a lack of reliable roads to traverse the vast and ... En savoir plus

    $10.69 CAD

  • Ranch Tales

    Stories from the Frontier

    par Ron Stuart ...
    An entertaining, fast-paced look at early ranching in British Columbia.Frontier historian Ken Mather is known for his fascinating, in-depth profiles of the men and women who established a distinctive ranching culture in Western Canada over a hundred years ago. Now, in this concise collection of stories—based on Mather’s column in the Vernon Morning Star—readers will meet even more colourful ... En savoir plus

    $9.89 CAD

  • Wagon Road North

    The Saga of the Cariboo Gold Rush, Revised and Expanded Edition

    par Art Downs ...
    A newly revised and updated edition of the classic pictorial account of the Cariboo Gold Rush trail.First published in 1960, Wagon Road North is the quintessential popular history book chronicling gold-rush-era BC. Focusing on the Cariboo Wagon Road—the crucial transportation route stretching from Fort Yale to Barkerville that made it possible for tens of thousands of prospectors to make their way ... En savoir plus

    $11.19 CAD

  • Trail North

    The Okanagan Trail of 1858–68 and Its Origins in British Columbia and Washington

    par Ron Stuart ...
    Winner (second prize), 2019 British Columbia Lieutenant Governor's Medal for Historical WritingA revealing history of the ancient trail that served as a major transportation route between Washington and British Columbia and shaped the cultural and economic ties between the two jurisdictions.Trails are the most enduring memorials of human occupation. Long before stone monuments were created, ... En savoir plus

    $14.39 CAD

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  • Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

    An Indian History of the American West

    par Dee Brown ...
    Dee Brown’s powerful and unforgettable classic that awakened the world to the nineteenth-century decimation of American Indian tribesFirst published in 1970, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee generated shockwaves with its frank and heartbreaking depiction of the systematic annihilation of American Indian tribes across the western frontier. In this nonfiction account, Dee Brown focuses on the betrayals ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Bear Child: The Life and Times of Jerry Potts

    The Life and Times of Jerry Potts

    par Rodger D. Touchie ...
    The West was a lawless domain when Jerry Potts was born into the Upper Missouri fur trade in 1838. The son of a Scottish father and a Blood mother, he was given the name Bear Child by his Blood tribe for his bravery and tenacity while he was still a teen. In 1874, when the North West Mounted Police first marched west and sat lost and starving near the Canada-U.S. border, it was Potts who led them ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • A Terrible Glory

    Custer and the Little Bighorn–the Last Great Battle of the American West

    par James Donovan ...
    A rousing and meticulously researched account of the notorious Battle of Little Big Horn and its unforgettable cast of characters from Sitting Bull to Custer himself.In June of 1876, on a desolate hill above a winding river called "the Little Bighorn," George Armstrong Custer and all 210 men under his direct command were annihilated by almost 2,000 Sioux and Cheyenne. The news of this devastating ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD

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  • David Thompson: A Life of Adventure and Discovery

    A Life of Adventure and Discovery

    par Elle Andra-Warner ...
    Collections series Amazing Stories
    Surveyor, cartographer, fur trader, adventurer, naturalist and entrepreneur, David Thompson is now recognized as one of the greatest explorers and geographers of all time. By 1812, he had surveyed almost four million square kilometres of the North American wilderness and become the first European to navigate the entire length of the Columbia River. This compelling biography draws from Thompson's ... En savoir plus

    $3.99 CAD

  • Denny's Trek: A Mountie's Memoir of the March West

    A Mountie's Memoir of the March West

    par Cecil E. Denny ...
    Like many other pioneering North West Mounted Police officers, Cecil Denny was a colourful, independent man with a career full of conquests and controversy. He and his comrades played key roles in the taming of Canada's wild and woolly west, and in this compilation of selected writings from his books The Law Marches West and The Riders of the Plains, we get that story straight from the horse's ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • Big Bear (Mistahimusqua)

    A Biography

    par J.R. Miller ...
    A biography of the Plains Cree chief who challenged Canadian authorities and became a warrior of legend.When Big Bear was young, in the first half of the nineteenth century, he overcame smallpox and other hardships—and eventually followed in the footsteps of his father, Black Powder, engaging in warfare against the Blackfoot. The time would come for him to draw on these experiences and step into a ... En savoir plus

    $15.19 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Extraordinary Canadians: Big Bear

    par Rudy Wiebe ...
    Collections series Extraordinary Canadians
    Big Bear (1825–1888) was a Plains Cree chief in Saskatchewan at a time when aboriginals were confronted with the disappearance of the buffalo and waves of European settlers that seemed destined to destroy the Indian way of life. In 1876 he refused to sign Treaty No. 6, until 1882, when his people were starving. Big Bear advocated negotiation over violence, but when the federal government refused ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD