Whoop-Up Country: The Canadian-American West 1865-1885
by SHARP, Paul F
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- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0806114843
- ISBN 13
- 9780806114842
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About This Item
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. Very Good. 1978. Softcover. 0806114843 . A softcover reprint edition presenting the story of the 19th century Whoop-Up Trail and surrounding country. The wagon road connected Fort Benton in north-central Montana and Fort Macleod in present-day Alberta. It was a key means by which goods were transported into Canada, until railroads made it obsolete. With numerous drawings by Charles M. Russell, a map and two sections of plates bearing black & white photos of people and scenes. This work originally published by University of Minnesota Press in 1955. --- In red & yellow wraps with Russell image of a gunfight to front cover. --- With prior owner's signature to title page and lightly sunned spine, else an intact, sound copy.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xix, 348 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87426
- Title
- Whoop-Up Country: The Canadian-American West 1865-1885
- Author
- SHARP, Paul F
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0806114843
- ISBN 13
- 9780806114842
- Publisher
- University of Oklahoma Press
- Place of Publication
- Norman
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- 0806114843
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