Author: CROSSFIELD HISTORY COMMITTEE
Title: Prairie Sod and Goldenrod - Crossfield and Area [Alberta Local History]
Description: Crossfield, Alberta: Crossfield History Committee, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0919213030. "The pages of this book contain the stories of how some 400 families changed a way of life to adapt to a new land, whether it be hostile or benign. It relates the physical struggle and mental conflict experienced while trying to match ambition with reality. There were heroes and villains, fortune seekers and idealists, and countless ordinary men, women and chldren. Their unfaltering resourcefulness won the struggle and today, we in the Crossfield district, have become a comfortable generation in the harsh land these worthy pioneers opened to a new civilization." - Foreword. 359 pages. Index. Wonderful photo endpapers. Includes over two-hundred pages of family histories. Generously illustrated with black and white reproductions of archival photos. Prior owner's details stamped atop front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this informative local history and invaluable genealogical reference. Strathern 2956, Krotki (2nd Edn) 246. ; 4to. Good .

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