Prairie Editor : The Life and Times of Buchanan of Lethbridge

Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.5x8.5 in - 14x22cm, B&W frontispiece.

Spine lightly soiled at head and heel. Brodart-wrapped jacket taped to boards at flaps by previous owner. Jacket lightly soiled at edges and rubbed at corners; front has sticker residue at top and closed tears to top and bottom, back stained with closed tear at top. Jacket spine sunned. Top edge stained in one spot. Early pages stamped by previous owner; p.184 lightly soiled in margin.

In 1920 C. Frank Steele began working at the Lethbridge Herald, an Alberta newspaper then run by William A. Buchanan. In this book, Steele describes Buchanan’s career as a newspaperman and politician. The volume follows Buchanan's newspaper work from Ontario to Alberta, culminating with his arrival at the Lethbridge Herald in the early 1900s. Steele contextualizes Buchanan’s publishing work with reference to both Lethbridge’s growth as a city and western Canadian newspapers at the turn of the century. With Buchanan’s 1909 election to the Alberta Legislature (followed by his 1911 election to Parliament, and 1925 appointment to the Senate), Steele traces Buchanan’s career in Canadian politics through the Great Depression and both World Wars. Throughout, the book balances Buchanan’s federal role against his civic influence in the Lethbridge area.