We have 3 wonderful vintage History books for your consideration.
All of them are hardcover, and have a dust jackets.
$10.00 for each, $25.00 for all three.
1) The Last Best West by Jean Bruce: Settlers, Free Homesteads in Canada
The Last Best West by Jean Bruce, published by Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Canada, 1976, hardcover with dust jacket, illustrated, 177 pages.
Contents include: Advertising Canada; To The Promised Land; Beginnings; Church and School; Labour Force; From Settlement to City; New Generation; etc.
Between 1896 and 1914, the Canadian government carried out a vigorous programme in central Europe, Britain, and the United States to persuade people to immigrate to the Canadian west, "The Last Best West." Hundreds of thousands of prospective settlers from diverse and distinctive ethnic backgrounds responded, leading to an extraordinary mass migration which changed the face of Canada. The great campaign to populate the west is presented here in a compelling and moving selection of more than 190 photographs of the period, together with short related texts.
Measures approx 9 1/4" X 9 1/4" - excellent condition.
2) Grand and Fabulous Notion : The First Century of Canadian Parks by Marty, Sid
Format Hardcover
Publication Year 1984
In a compelling and often humorous fashion, author Sid Marty has captured the quarrels, the passions and the human frailties of Canada's early entrepreneurs and of a government department charged with preserving our heritage.
Beautiful colored pictures and old photographs.
3) Croutons on a Cow Pie by Baxter Black - Cowboy Humor and Poetry
Publisher/Date: Coyote Cowboy Co. ; 1992. This book is the hardcover edition.
Illustrated by western caricaturists. Very Unique Book.
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