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To be a cowboy : Oliver Christensen's story /
During a time of two world wars and a sluggish world economy, many Northern Europeans left their homelands to build the American and Canadian West with dreams of abundance and new life. Spanning a period from the late 1800s to the mid-1900s. This book recounts the dreams and realities of a father an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Calgary, Alta. :
University of Calgary Press,
©2003.
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| Colección: | Legacies shared book series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | During a time of two world wars and a sluggish world economy, many Northern Europeans left their homelands to build the American and Canadian West with dreams of abundance and new life. Spanning a period from the late 1800s to the mid-1900s. This book recounts the dreams and realities of a father and a son. Otto Christensen came to Alberta in the early 1900s as an indentured farm worker from Denmark with a dream of becoming a successful farmer and rancher in Alberta. His son, Oliver grew up on his father's farm during the Dirty Thirties and soon realised his dream of becoming a cowboy in the mid-1940s. As a rider at the Bar U Ranch -- at this time, the largest, most successful ranch in Canada -- Oliver soon realised a life as a cowboy could not be his for long. Based on oral history interviews, unpublished diaries, and treasure trove of family papers, this is a compelling memoir that paints a portrait of a dying way of life. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 148 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781552384602 1552384608 |