Banff, Canada's First National Park A History and a Memory of Rocky Mountains Park by Luxton, Eleanor Georgina - 1975

Banff, Alberta: Summerthought, 1975. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (ix) 157 pp. Burgundy boards lettered in gilt on the spine; endpaper maps; illustrated with black and white photographs. Light edge and corner wear on the dustjacket; no interior markings. The Contents are: Foreword by Dr Lewis H. Thomas; Preface; The Sound of Silence; The First of All Things; Climate and Vegetation; Wildlife in Rocky Montains Park; The First Mountain People; Traders Travellers and Missionaries; New Light on the Rockies; The Coming of the Rails; The Old and the New; A Park and a Man; A New Century; Park Policy; The Park and Industry; Change in the Park; Banff and the Visitor; Sidelights; and The Future; followed by an epilogue, an appendix (the Pablo Buffalo Herd) and an index..