To be a cowboy
Subtitle: Oliver Christensen's story
By: Barbara Holliday.
Contributors: Christensen, Oliver.
Series: Legacies shared series,; 10; Legacies shared book series ;; no. 10.
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Calgary
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
Subjects: Christensen, Oliver.; Christensen, Oliver -- Family.; Christensen, Oliver.; Christensen, Oliver -- Famille.; Cowboys -- Alberta -- Biography.; Danes -- Alberta -- Biography.; Ranch life -- Alberta.; Cow-boys -- Alberta -- Biographies.; Vie au ranch -- Alberta.; Alberta -- Social life and customs.; Alberta -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.; Biographies.
Description: "During a time of two world wars and a sluggish world economy, many Northern Europeans left their homelands for the American and Canadian West with visions of abundance and new life. Spanning a period from the late 1800s to the mid-1900s, To Be a Cowboy recounts the dreams and realities of a father and a son." "Otto Christensen came to North America in the early 1900s as an indentured farm worker from Denmark with a dream of becoming a successful farmer in The Canadian West. His son, Oliver, grew up on his father's farm during the Dirty Thirties and realized his dream of becoming a cowboy in the mid-1940s. As a rider at the Bar U Ranch - at this time, the largest, most successful ranch in Canada - Oliver eventually decided that the cowboy way of life was not for him. Based on oral history interviews, unpublished autobiography, and a treasure trove of family papers, To Be A Cowboy is a memoir that paints a portrait of a dying way of life."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-140) and index.