Catalogue Search | MBRL
Are you sure you want to remove the book from the shelf?
{{itemTitle}}
50,863
result(s) for
"Prairies"
Sort by:
Do you really want to visit a prairie?
\"A child goes on an adventure to the tall grass prairie of the Kansas Flint Hills, encountering bad weather and harsh climates, as well as encountering the animals and plants that live in this biome. Includes world map of prairies and glossary\"-- Provided by publisher.
Book
Imperial Plots
Sarah Carter's Imperial Plots: Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies examines the goals, aspirations, and challenges met by women who sought land of their own.
Supporters of British women homesteaders argued they would contribute to the \"spade-work\" of the Empire through their imperial plots, replacing foreign settlers and relieving Britain of its \"surplus\" women. Yet far into the twentieth century there was persistent opposition to the idea that women could or should farm: British women were to be exemplars of an idealized white femininity, not toiling in the fields. In Canada, heated debates about women farmers touched on issues of ethnicity, race, gender, class, and nation.
Despite legal and cultural obstacles and discrimination, British women did acquire land as homesteaders, farmers, ranchers, and speculators on the Canadian prairies. They participated in the project of dispossessing Indigenous people. Their complicity was, however, ambiguous and restricted because they were excluded from the power and privileges of their male counterparts.
Imperial Plots depicts the female farmers and ranchers of the prairies, from the Indigenous women agriculturalists of the Plains to the array of women who resolved to work on the land in the first decades of the twentieth century.
eBook
The prairie thief
In late nineteenth-century Colorado, Louisa's father is erroneously arrested for thievery and, while under the charge of the awful Smirch family, Louisa and a magical friend must find a way to prove his innocence.
Book
Heavy burdens on small shoulders : the labour of pioneer children on the Canadian Prairies
\"The phrase \"child labour\" carries negative undertones in today's society. However, only a century ago on the Canadian Prairies, youngsters laboured alongside their parents - working the land, cleaning stovepipes, and chopping wood. By shouldering their share of the chores, these children learned the domestic and manual labour skills needed for life on a Prairie family farm. Rollings-Magnusson uses historic research, photographs, and personal anecdotes to describe the kinds of work performed by children and how each task fit into the family economy. This book is a vital contribution to Western Canadian History as well as family and gender studies.\"--pub. desc.
Book
The Good Walk
A motley group's long trek across the prairies, witnessing the land, reflecting on the past, and creating new paths for the future Equal parts memoir, travelogue, and manifesto, The Good Walk recounts the adventures of settler and Indigenous ramblers who together retrace the earliest historical trails and pathways of the prairies.
eBook
Back from the Collapse
Back from the Collapse is a clarion call for restoring one
of North America's most underappreciated and overlooked ecosystems:
the grasslands of the Great Plains. This region has been called
America's Serengeti in recognition of its historically
extraordinary abundance of wildlife. Since Euro-American
colonization, however, populations of at least twenty-four species
of Great Plains wildlife have collapsed-from pallid sturgeon and
burrowing owls to all major mammals, including bison and grizzly
bears. In response to this incalculable loss, Curtis H. Freese and
other conservationists founded American Prairie, a nonprofit
organization with the mission of supporting the region's native
wildlife by establishing a 3.2-million-acre reserve on the plains
of eastern Montana, one of the most intact and highest-priority
areas for biodiversity conservation in the Great Plains. In
Back from the Collapse Freese explores the evolutionary
history of the region's ecosystem over millions of years, as it
transitioned from subtropical forests to the edge of an ice sheet
to today's prairies. He details the eventual species collapse and
American Prairie's work to restore the habitat and wildlife,
efforts described by National Geographic as \"one of the
most ambitious conservation projects in American history.\"
eBook