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Bachusky, Johnnie

 
9781926613703: Ghost Town Stories of the Red Coat Trail: From Renegade to Ruin on the Canadian Prairies
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ISBN 10 : 1926613708 ISBN 13 : 9781926613703
Editeur : Heritage House Publishing Co Ltd, 2010

Synopsis


The Red Coat Trail of southern Saskatchewan and southeastern Alberta runs near the route of the North West Mounted Police's famous 1874 March West. Today, this lonely highway passes through a windswept land of ghostly abandoned towns. Johnnie Bachusky takes readers back to the heyday of these towns, which sprang up as settlers travelled west during the last great land rush. The Roaring Twenties brought bumper harvests, but also bootleggers and bank robbers; fortunes were won and lost in high-stakes poker games. The Great Depression devastated the region as disease, drought, dust storms and grasshoppers took their toll. History comes to life in these exciting true stories, from an account of a 1920s bank robbery in Manyberries to the tales of a boisterous Govenlock rancher who hunted with Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hickok.

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À propos de l'auteur

Johnnie Bachusky is an award-winning journalist who has explored hundreds of ghost towns across western and northern Canada since the late 1990s. He has written dozens of ghost-town and heritage-related articles for newspapers and magazines in Canada. His heritage photography has been featured in national and international publications, and he has been consulted and featured in many television and film documentaries. As well, he is the co-creator of three acclaimed websites about ghost towns in Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia, as well as the heritage photography site Silent Structures. His photography of pioneer wooden grain elevators is also featured on many websites, including Grain Elevators of Canada. He lives in Red Deer, Alberta.

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Éditeur
Heritage House Publishing Co Ltd
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1926613708
ISBN 13 
9781926613703
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
144
Coordonnées du fabricant
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