ISBN10: 0888648537, ISBN13: 9780888648532, [publisher: Historical Society of Alberta, Calgary] Hardcover SUBTITLED : ` The Prairie Dryland Disaster 1917 -1926 '. These 200 pages - with INDEX - form volume VI in the A.H.S. series. LEARN more about dry belt population. Also : fall seeding, Rush Lake, Vauxhall, Flowerdale Municipality, Magrath Wool Growers, Carmangay, rye pool, rainmaker, creditors, liabilities, crops, lien notes, hail insurance, pre-empted, Iddesleigh, Union Bank, Village of Prelate, and Canada Land. Section of b/w photographs at center. Also plenty of tabular data Some graphs, some b/w maps. Much of the text is from individual statements and testimonies'. Cond : Boards are blue with gilt lettering - face and spine. White end-papers which carry the blind stamp of a p/o. D.J. (now protected in mylar) is orangey-brown with purple lettering. Volume is in all senses crispy. Collectible !! Quote (p. xxxvii - introduction) : " From Social Plains, Alberta, north of Medicine Hat, emerged another cry from the dusty devastation. Mrs. Reinhard Frerichs, her husband and family were ready ro give up. The land was no good for farming, `It eats all them years the dear seed and never gives it back'. she wept. While the family kept chickens, there was ._._._. .' Size: Octavo
[Linden, AB, Canada] [Publication Year: 1986] ...
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ISBN10: 0888648537, ISBN13: 9780888648532, [publisher: Historical Society Of Alberta, Calgary] Hardcover pp. 200. 8vo. Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Light shelfwear and soiling. Dustjacket lightly worn and age toned; very good+ in very good+ dustjacket. Historical society of Alberta Volume IV.
[Winnipeg, MB, Canada] [Publication Year: 1986]