Great Coffee Table Gift -(see reviews below)
Where
the River Brought Them -by Pat
McDonaldIs a mixture of truth, legend, and tales where
sometimes
the truth far outstrips the legends. It is the story of Rocky
Mountain House, of its great
fur trade history,
ofexplorer
and geographer David Thompson,
of competing Cree and Blackfoot Indian alliances, new
discoveries,
life at the forts, and Thompson's treks through the
mountain passes. It is also the story of the hardy pioneers who
came
after to the area. There is much history here. It is the sweeping story
of the great North
Saskatchewan River and the men and women who passed our way.
*** This is the official Bi-Centennial
book of Rocky Mountain House.
Visit secret burial sites, mysterious caves, boats long hidden and sundance lodges .Read about the world record bear of George Bugbee and the mysterious Russian house in the woods near Caroline. Did you know that during the Second World, two Japanese internment camps and one German POW camp were located nearby? And then there was Anna Chevallier of the world famous diving girls who with her horse jumped into water tanks fifty feet below! This is but a small portion of our exciting history- 556 pages with over 600 photos including two spectacular color inserts of 32 pages!
"Where The River
Brought Them" is the official Rocky Mountain House
Bi-Centennial History Book.
"
DANGEROUS" !! David
Bly of the Calgary Herald Friday-
" This isn't
your ordinary local history- this is about Alberta's
beginnings.
Its about the Northwest Company, the Hudson's Bay Company, the natives,
the
traders, the settlers and
others who are part of the colourful parade of the
region's history.
With lots of anecdotes and a generous sprinkling
of
photographs, this hefty
book is dangerous-start flipping its pages and
you
could
easily
be sucked into a time
vortex for several hours."
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Bookshoppe- 1-403-845-3168
Rocky Mountain House or e-mail buddysbk@telus.net
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