The Pioneer Years, 1895-1914: Memories of Settlers Who Opened the West by Broadfoot, Barry - 1976

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Doubleday Canada Limited, 1976. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 24 PAGES PHOTOGRAPHS, Very good orange cloth. Illustrated endpapers. Very good yellow pictorial price-clipped DJ. Some wear and tear, soiling, spine fading of DJ, name inside. 1976, 8vo, viii, [4], 403pp. [1], Arora 505 Saskatchewan Bibliography, Fowke & Carpenter 2009 Bibliography of Canadian Folklore, "In these pages the pioneers themselves remember the years from 1895-1914 when the Canadian West took its modern shape. They remember the loneliness of the prairie, the importance of the family and the crushing burden of death and natural tragedy. They remember the joys of community, barn raising's, threshing gangs, going to church, going to town, and days spent in a one-room schoolhouse..." "They came from Europe and the United States, drawn by promises of free land. Some brought a fancy wardrobe, more suitable for the streets of London than those of Winnipeg. There was free land, all-right, but making it yield a crop was another story. Some made it, some didn't. In this book the pioneers themselves remember the years from 1895 to 1914 when the Canadian West took its modern shape..."