"Colonial & Indigenous relationships, the fur trade, methods of transportation. From 1880 to 1896, these changes were happening faster than ever before! From starvation, epidemics and land surveys primarily affecting the Indigenous people - to the beginnings of missions and the exploding gold rush - this book documents key events that helped shape the Lesser Slave Lake region. The author provides and overview of these transformations by extensively documenting the news stories of the time, offering a rich and diverse lens to relive one of the great expansion periods on Alberta's history." -- Cover.
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