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edited by C.L. Higham and Robert ThackerPublication Details
BookUniversity of Calgary Press2004Availability
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- Frontier and pioneer life — Canada, Western
- Frontier and pioneer life — West (U.S.)
- Frontier and pioneer life — Cross-cultural studies
- Legends — Canada, Western
- Legends — West (U.S.)
- Canada, Western — History
- West (U.S.) — History
- Canada — Boundaries — United States
- United States — Boundaries — Canada
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- "This book explores the problems, importance, and results of comparing the Canadian and American Wests, focusing on issues relating to borders, whether they be geographical and historical, or cultural and theoretical. It is an excellent introduction to this burgeoning area of study, as it brings together a variety of disciplines and approaches."–BOOK JACKET
Contents
- An introduction to comparing the two wests / C. L. Higham
- 1. Against the grain : state-making, cultures, and geography in the American West / Elliott West
- 2. Two faces west : the development myth in Canada and the United States / Donald Worster
- 3. From 54[degrees]40′ to free trade : relations between the American Northwest and western Canada / Gerald Friesen
- 4. Sanctuary : native border crossings and the North American West / Beth LaDow
- 5. Disputing the medicine line : the Plains Cree and the Canadian-American border, 1876-85 / Michel Hogue
- 6. Making the forty-ninth parallel : how Canada and the United States used space, race, and gender to turn Blackfoot country into the Alberta-Montana borderlands / Sheila McManus
- 7. "The spark that jumped the gap" : North America’s Northern Plains and the experience of place / Molly P. Rozum
- 8. Fort Macleod of the borderlands : using the forty-ninth parallel on southern Alberta’s ranching frontier / Peter S. Morris
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- 1552381358
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