Culturing Wilderness in Jasper National Park: Studies in Two Centuries of Human History in the Upper Athabasca River Watershed

by Peter John Murphy, Michael Payne, PearlAnn Reichwein, et al.

Adults need playgrounds. In 1907, the Canadian government designated a vast section of the Rocky Mountains as Jasper Forest Park. Tourists now play where Indigenous Peoples once lived, fur traders toiled, and M tis families homesteaded. In Culturing Wilderness in Jasper National Park, I.S. MacLaren and eight other writers unearth the largely unrecorded past of the upper Athabasca River watershed, and bring to light two centuries' worth of human history,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0888644833
• ISBN13: 9780888644831
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: University of Alberta Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.6" x 10.0"