Blazing the Old Cattle Trail

Hardcover with dustjacket, 248 pages, 5.5x8.5 in - 14x22 cm, B&W illustrations by William Perehudoff.

Cover corners and spine head/heel worn and bumped. Jacket worn with edges creased and chipped; closed tears to front and back at top and bottom edges. Spine tender at pp.200-201.

Grant MacEwan (1902-2000) was an agriculturalist at the Universities of Saskatchewan and Manitoba before he entered politics and was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Alberta in 1966. As an author, MacEwan is best remembered for works on western Canadian history. This volume contains more than 30 short stories of cattle drives, ranching, and raising livestock in the North-West from the early 1800s to the early 1900s. Originally serialized in “The Western Producer,” each story is a self-contained glimpse into the role of livestock as objects of value or vexation for ranchers, criminals, missionaries, and law enforcement officers. Whether describing a search for a bull that decided to join a bison herd or Roper Hull driving 1200 horses across the Rocky Mountains to sell on the prairies, adventure and enterprise shape the text. Features illustrations by renowned Canadian artist William Perehudoff.