The Beaver Hills Country : A History of Land and Life

MacDonald, Graham A.

AU Press（2009/08発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 190 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781897425374
• DDC分類 971.233

Full Description

This book explores a relatively small, but interesting and anomalous,region of Alberta between the North Saskatchewan and the Battle Rivers.The Beaver Hills arose where mountain glaciers from the west metcontinental ice-sheets from the east. An overview of the hills'physiography helps us to grasp the complexity and diversity oflandscapes, soil types, and vegetation communities. Ecological themes,such as climatic cycles, ground water availability, vegetationsuccession and the response of wildlife, and the impact of fires, shapethe possibilities and provide the challenges to those who have calledthe region home or used its varied resources: Aboriginal peoples,Métis, and European immigrants.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: On the Name "BeaverHills"

Chapter 1: The Character of the Beaver Hills

Chapter 2: Ancient Ways Between Two Rivers

Chapter 3: Traders, Horses, and Bison,1730 - 1870

Chapter 4: Visions of the Promised Land,1870 - 1905

Chapter 5: Conservation, Communities andEgalitarianism, 1905 - 1930

Chapter 6: Hard Times and Good Times,1930 - 1950

Chapter 7: Postwar Urbanism

Notes

Bibliography

Image Sources

Index