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Whoop-Up Country: Canadian-American West, 1865-1885

Paul F. Sharp

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Description:From dust jacket:For twenty-five years the Whoop-Up Trail, a dusty trail snaking from Fort Benton in Montana to Fort Macleod 240 miles north in Canada, was a main highway on the northern plains. It carried freight to government installations, Northwest Mounted Police posts, U. S. Army camps, cattle ranches and Indian reservations. The high, treeless plains that it crossed came to be known as Whoop-Up Country---and rarely was a region better named. It was peopled with Blackfoot Indians, Mounties, U. S. cavalrymen, ranchers, cowboys, whisky traders, fur trappers, bullwhackers, muleskinners, wolfers, gamblers and outlaws bound to or from Canada and the reach of the law. Fort Benton was a frenzied center of transportation and commerce. Fort Macleod was a lively Mountie fort. the story of this colorful, often bloody region centers on immortal names in western history: Lewis and Clark who explored it; the Hudson's Bay Company, which opened it to the fur trade; Chief Joseph of the Nez Perces and Chief Sitting Bull of the Sioux, who took refuge in its Canada stretches; John X. Beidler, who helped police it. Most of all, however, this is the story of international accord and co-operation among divergent peoples---a story virtually unique in history. On these northern plains two great streams of pioneers shared an economic, cultural and political interdependence imposed by geography. Then, almost overnight, the railways arrived. Fort Benton, once the "Chicago of the Plains," withered, the people went their separate ways and the ruts of the Whoop-Up Trail were covered over by the sea of grass. But in this brilliant account it remains an enduring symbol of an international border guarded by parks, not military garrisons. In the years since its first publication, "Whoop-Up Country" has received many honors, among them the Award of Merit from the American Association for State and Local History. It has become a classic, a prototype for regional histories that have broad implications for a true understanding of the pioneer West. First published by the University of Minnesota Press, it is being reissued by the University of Oklahoma Press for a new generation of historians and readers of western Americana.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Whoop-Up Country: Canadian-American West, 1865-1885. To get started finding Whoop-Up Country: Canadian-American West, 1865-1885, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: From dust jacket:For twenty-five years the Whoop-Up Trail, a dusty trail snaking from Fort Benton in Montana to Fort Macleod 240 miles north in Canada, was a main highway on the northern plains. It carried freight to government installations, Northwest Mounted Police posts, U. S. Army camps, cattle ranches and Indian reservations. The high, treeless plains that it crossed came to be known as Whoop-Up Country---and rarely was a region better named. It was peopled with Blackfoot Indians, Mounties, U. S. cavalrymen, ranchers, cowboys, whisky traders, fur trappers, bullwhackers, muleskinners, wolfers, gamblers and outlaws bound to or from Canada and the reach of the law. Fort Benton was a frenzied center of transportation and commerce. Fort Macleod was a lively Mountie fort. the story of this colorful, often bloody region centers on immortal names in western history: Lewis and Clark who explored it; the Hudson's Bay Company, which opened it to the fur trade; Chief Joseph of the Nez Perces and Chief Sitting Bull of the Sioux, who took refuge in its Canada stretches; John X. Beidler, who helped police it. Most of all, however, this is the story of international accord and co-operation among divergent peoples---a story virtually unique in history. On these northern plains two great streams of pioneers shared an economic, cultural and political interdependence imposed by geography. Then, almost overnight, the railways arrived. Fort Benton, once the "Chicago of the Plains," withered, the people went their separate ways and the ruts of the Whoop-Up Trail were covered over by the sea of grass. But in this brilliant account it remains an enduring symbol of an international border guarded by parks, not military garrisons. In the years since its first publication, "Whoop-Up Country" has received many honors, among them the Award of Merit from the American Association for State and Local History. It has become a classic, a prototype for regional histories that have broad implications for a true understanding of the pioneer West. First published by the University of Minnesota Press, it is being reissued by the University of Oklahoma Press for a new generation of historians and readers of western Americana.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Whoop-Up Country: Canadian-American West, 1865-1885. To get started finding Whoop-Up Country: Canadian-American West, 1865-1885, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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