[PDF] A Hunter Of Peace Mary Ts Schaffers Old Indian Trails Of The Canadian Rockies Incidents Of Camp And Trail Life Covering Two Years Exploration Through The Rocky Mountains Of Canada eBook

Author : Mary Townsend Sharples Schäffer
Publisher : Banff, Alta. : Whyte Foundation
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 20,19 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Alberta Description and travel 1906-1950
ISBN : 9780920608067

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Contains incidents of camp and trail life, cover two year's exploration through the Rocky Mountains of Canada. Also includes a previously unpublished account of the 1911 expediton to Maligne Lake.

Author : Tara Kathleen Kelly
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 50,65 MB
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0700625887

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At the end of the nineteenth century, Theodore Roosevelt, T. S. Van Dyke, and other elite men began describing their big-game hunting as “manly sport with the rifle.” They also began writing about their experiences, publishing hundreds of narratives of hunting and adventure in the popular press (and creating a new literary genre in the process). But why did so many of these big-game hunters publish? What was writing actually doing for them, and what did it do for readers? In exploring these questions, The Hunter Elite reveals new connections among hunting narratives, publishing, and the American conservation movement. Beginning in the 1880s these prolific hunter-writers told readers that big-game hunting was a test of self-restraint and “manly virtues,” and that it was not about violence. They also opposed their sportsmanlike hunting to the slaughtering of game by British imperialists, even as they hunted across North America and throughout the British Empire. Their references to Americanism and manliness appealed to traditional values, but they used very modern publishing technologies to sell their stories, and by 1900 they were reaching hundreds of thousands of readers every month. When hunter-writers took up conservation as a cause, they used that reach to rally popular support for the national parks and for legislation that restricted hunting in the US, Canada, and Newfoundland. The Hunter Elite is the first book to explore both the international nature of American hunting during this period and the essential contributions of hunting narratives and the publishing industry to the North American conservation movement.

Author : Colleen Skidmore
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 19,77 MB
Release : 2017-10-13
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1772123641

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Mary Schäffer was a photographer, writer, botanical painter, and mapmaker from Philadelphia, well known for her travels in the Canadian Rockies and Japan at the turn of the twentieth century. In Searching for Mary Schäffer, Colleen Skidmore takes up Schäffer’s own resonant themes—women and wilderness, travel and science—to ask new questions, tell new stories, and reassess the persona of Mary Schäffer imagined in more recent times. Public and private archival collections in the United States and Canada set the stage for this engrossing exploration of Schäffer’s creative, collaborative, and competitive enterprise amid the cultural complexities of Philadelphia’s science and photography communities, and the scientific, tourist, and Indigenous societies of the Rocky Mountains of Canada. “In this impressive book, Colleen Skidmore uses her considerable skills as a social historian of photography to shed new light on the remarkable life of Mary Schäffer. She knows the stories, the characters, and presents a social history that is fresh and convincing. Skidmore’s conclusion is brilliant and will certainly serve as a catalyst for further research and study of Mary Schäffer.” Donna Livingstone, President and CEO, Glenbow Museum

Author : Bob Henderson
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 24,83 MB
Release : 2016-05-30
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1459737423

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Hit the trails with naturalist and raconteur Bob Henderson in this four-book bundle! From folklore to heritage, with a hefty dose of the Scandinavian outdoor-living ethos of friluftsliv, Henderson fires the imagination, urging Ontarians to reignite their relationship with nature. Includes: Every Trail Has a Story More Trails More Tales Nature First Pike’s Portage

Author : Naomi Rosenblum
Publisher : Abbeville Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 38,85 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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The definitive text on women in photography, now in an affordable paperback edition.