Bibliograph

Rediscovering the Prairies, journeys by dog, horse & canoe, by Norman Henderson ; drawings by Robert Cook

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Rediscovering the Prairies, journeys by dog, horse & canoe, by Norman Henderson ; drawings by Robert Cook

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Rediscovering the Prairies

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

798714543

Responsibility statement

by Norman Henderson ; drawings by Robert Cook

Sub title

journeys by dog, horse & canoe

Summary

In the early days, Plains Indians travelled on foot across the vast Canadian prairies, with only fierce, wolf-like dogs as companions. Later, with the arrival of Europeans, horses and canoes appeared on the scene. In Rediscovering the Prairies, Norman Henderson, a leading scholar of the world's great temperate grasslands, revives the earlier modes of prairie travel. He journeys along 325 kilometres of Saskatchewan's Qu'Appelle Valley by dog and travois (the wooden rack pulled by dogs and horses used by First Nations to transport belongings), then by canoe, and finally by horse and travois

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