So Far and yet So Close : Frontier Cattle Ranching in Western Prairie Canada and the Northern Territory of Australia
ISBN: 9781552387962
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / University of Calgary Press
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Subjects: History;

There are many points on which the western Canadian and northern Australian cattle frontiers evoke comparisons. This book provides a comparative study of frontier cattle ranching in two societies on opposite ends of the globe. It is also an environmental history that at the same time centres on both the natural and frontier environments.


Elofson Warren :

Warren Elofson is a professor, and former head, of the history department at the University of Calgary, where he has taught since 1986. He has written several books on British and western Canadian history, including Somebody Else's Money: The Walrond Ranch Story, 1883-1907 (2009) and Frontier Cattle Ranching in the Land and Times of Charlie Russell (2004). Much of Dr. Elofson's expertise in western Canadian agriculture comes from many years of personal experience ranching and farming in Alberta.

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