Trails and Trials: Markets and Land Use in the Alberta Beef Cattle Industry, 1881-1948
by Maxwell Foran, Maxwell L. Foran
Category: History

This narrative history documents how the beef cattle industry in Alberta responded to the challenges following the end of the open-range era through two world wars and the Great Depression. It provides a new case study of Canada's economic development and settlement history as the cattle industry matured and survived into the modern era.