Settling in - Holt, Faye Reineberg

Clean, tight, unmarked; store stamp inside front cover; otherwise very minimal wear; Moving and settling in have always been a part of prairie life. From teepees to soddies, mailorder houses to mansions, early homes on the Canadian prairies were as diverse as the people who lived in them. Settling In details the different lifestyles, cultural expectations, and construction techniques of First Nations, explorers, fur traders, missionaries. NWMP, and pioneer settlers as they built dwellings in the often inhospitable prairie climate and turned houses into homes. Archival photographs provide a visual record of the enormous variety and ingenuity characteristic of early prairie architecture in the late 1890s and early 1900s.
Near Fine
Soft cover
Fifth House
1999
Calgary, AB