Where the River Brought Them : 200 Years at Rocky Mountain House and Area

Hardcover with dustjacket, 562 pages, 8.5x11 in - 21.5x28 cm, B&W and color photographs.

Boards lightly bumped at bottom edge. Spine bumped at heel. Protected dust jacket worn at edges and corners, creased with closed tears at top edges; jacket back and back flap stained. Jacket spine creased at head and heel.

Pat McDonald (1936-2020) was a schoolteacher and principal in several Alberta communities, and was named Historian Laureate of Rocky Mountain House. In this thick volume, McDonald traces Rocky Mountain House’s history from the late 1700s to the late 1990s. He spends considerable time describing fur trade activities and Indigenous-settler relations in the area, then turns to early homesteading prior to the townsite’s creation. Once the town officially came into being in the early 1900s, McDonald discusses Rocky Mountain House’s development of services, growth, and responses to challenges throughout the twentieth century. The volume’s chapters are divided into clearly arranged vignettes that contextualize the town’s place in western Alberta's past/present, profile key figures, and balance high-level historical overviews with personal stories. Includes index and bibliography.

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