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June Mickle : one woman's life in the foothills and mountains of western Canada
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ISBN: 9781771601504 1771601493 9781771601498 1771601507 9781771601481 1771601485 Year: 2015 Publisher: Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd.,

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"An inspiring biography of an adventurous woman who grew up on a small ranch in southern Alberta during the Depression. In spite of many hardships, she and her family became some of the most important mountain outfitters in the Banff and Yoho national parks. June's strength of character was forged by living in the wilderness west of Turner Valley as a young girl with her mother and her stepfather, Tip Johnson, a renowned cowboy and horse trainer. She learned early to live in harmony with her environment and became a strongly determined woman capable of meeting the challenges of being an artist, horseback guide, businesswoman, wife and mother. As the only child of a single mother, June saw early years that were marked by loneliness but also by close family ties that defined how she would chart her adult life. As well, it led to a love of horses that played an essential part of her life right up until her death at the age of 91. Her life with Bert Mickle, the son of a long-established ranching family, was unconventional. It is a love story of two people coping with family struggles and a precarious existence that had tremendous rewards and hardships. June's strength of character held her family together despite unforeseen tragedies."--


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Ya Ha Tinda : a home place - celebrating 100 years of the Canadian Government's only working horse ranch
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ISBN: 9781771602297 1771602295 9781771602280 1771602287 Year: 2017 Publisher: Victoria, [Canada] : RMB,

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"An illustrated history celebrating the 100th anniversary of this historic, working horse ranch located along the eastern slopes of the Canadian Rockies. The story of the Ya Ha Tinda and its evolution into the only continuously operating federal government horse ranch in Canada is much more than the story of the people who worked and lived there. Its ancient history is an amalgam of geological evolution, with archaeological evidence of ancient indigenous people's use of the land for over 9,400 years and a biophysical inventory of flora and fauna unique to this particular landscape. So important is this small footprint, that it has been the source of a constant struggle for control between governments and special interest groups since the early 1900s, when the Brewster Brothers Transfer Company first obtained a grazing lease in the area for raising and breaking horses for their guiding and outfitting business in Banff and Lake Louise. This unique book covers the 100 years since the inception of the ranch: its challenges to survive intact to the 2017 centennial celebration and the stories of the men and women who worked and survived on the spread as they fought the elements and the politics to keep it as a "home place" for both the warden service and Parks Canada."--

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