Fifty Dollar Bride : Marie Rose Smith - A Chronicle Of Metis Life In The 19th Century

Carpenter, Jock

Hana, 1988

By Gorman And Gorman Ltd.
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Details

Card covers, 149 pages, 5.5x8.5 in, [14x22 cm], B&W photographs. Originally published in 1977 - the present copy a 1988 reprint.
Condition

Trace of label residue on the front cover, covers rubbed.
Notes

Carpenter recounts the remarkable life of her grandmother, Marie Rose Smith (1861–1960), born at Fort Garry into a Métis family steeped in the traditional prairie way of life—buffalo hunts, pemmican making, trading journeys, and the creaking lines of Red River carts. At sixteen she married Charley Smith, a Scandinavian newcomer, and the young couple established a ranch near Pincher Creek, Alberta. There Marie Rose raised seventeen children while helping manage the homestead.

Notes adapted from publishers information found on the back cover.
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