The Passing of a frontier: ranching in the Canadian West, 1882-1912

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dc.contributor.advisorRosenvall, Lynn A.
dc.contributor.authorEvans, Simon M.
dc.coverage.spatial200000116en
dc.date.accessioned2017-03-27T22:59:26Z
dc.date.available2017-03-27T22:59:26Z
dc.date.issued1976-05
dc.descriptionBibliography: p. 341-357.en
dc.description.abstractThis study is concerned with the industry which dominated the land use pattern of the Canadian west for a thirty year period between the disappearance of the buffalo and the arrival of large numbers of homestead settlers during the first decade of the twentieth century. It seeks to describe and analyse the establishment, growth, and eventual demise, of the range cattle industry in western Canada. Geographical description concentrates on the location and extent of the area occupied, the intensity with which the land was utilized, and the relative importance of production units of various sizes. An attempt is made to identify some of the variables promoting change in land use on a nineteenth century frontier of settlement. Government attitudes and legislation, economic cycles, technological developments, and the physical environment, are envisaged as interacting to produce a complex "behavioural environment" which was subject to interpretation by a heterogenious group of entrepreneurs and ranchers with widely different goals. Little attention has been paid to the range cattle industry in Canada, in spite of the voluminous literature on the topic in the United States. This study suggests that a robust Canadian variation of the American "cattleman's frontier" was established in Alberta and Assiniboia, and this unique tradition was only partially swept aside by an influx of cattle companies and farmers from the United States during the first decade of the twentieth century.en_US
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dc.format.extentix, 357 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.en
dc.identifier82480957en
dc.identifier.citationEvans, S. M. (1976). The Passing of a frontier: ranching in the Canadian West, 1882-1912 (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/12980en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/12980
dc.identifier.lccFC 3216.9 R3 E826 1977 Microficheen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/51885
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisher.facultyGraduate Studies
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.publisher.placeCalgaryen
dc.rightsUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.
dc.subject.lcshRanches - Northwest, Canadian
dc.subject.lcshCattle trade - Northwest, Canadian
dc.subject.lcshRanch life - Northwest, Canadian
dc.subject.lcshFrontier and pioneer life - Northwest, Canadian
dc.subject.lcshLand use - Northwest, Canadian
dc.titleThe Passing of a frontier: ranching in the Canadian West, 1882-1912
dc.typedoctoral thesis
thesis.degree.disciplineGeography
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgary
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)
ucalgary.thesis.accessionTheses Collection 58.002:Box 257 82480957
ucalgary.thesis.notesPLen
ucalgary.thesis.uarcreleasenoen
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