objectType:"Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)" found 39 records - Research Collections

Alberta memories

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1988

Call Number: 08.2 Al1tb oversize

Responsibility: principal photographer: Michael Shimbasi; research, writing: Janice Stomp

Published Date: 1988

Physical Description: 254p. : ill., ports

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Banff National Park; Photography

Notes: Published to mark the 50th anniversary of Alberta Treasury Branches

Accession Number: 5589

Call Number: 08.2 Al1tb oversize

Collection: Archives Library

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Alpine huts in the Rockies, Selkirks and Purcells...

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1986

Author: Kariel, Herbert G.; Kariel, Pat

Publisher: Banff : Alpine Club of Canada

Call Number: 06.5 K11a

Author: Kariel, Herbert G.; Kariel, Pat

Responsibility: by Herbert G. Kariel and Patricia E. Kariel

Publisher: Banff : Alpine Club of Canada

Published Date: 1986

Physical Description: 183p. : ill., maps, plans, ports

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Architecture; Cabins; Cabins and shelters; Huts; Mountaineering; History

Abstract: Pertains to alpine huts in the Rocky Mountains, Selkirk Mountains, and Purcell Mountains - includes photographs, history, and other details.

Contents: Prologue; Rocky Mountains:; Lake Louise-Yoho Area:; Abbot Pass Hut; Elizabeth Parker Hut; Fay Hut; Stanley Mitchell Hut; Halfway/Ptarmigan Hut; Graham Cooper Hut; Neil Colgan Hut; Castle Mountain Hut; Wapta Icefield Area:; Balfour Hut; Peter and Catharine Whyte Hut / Petyto Hut; Bow Hut; Banff-Jasper National Park Boundary Areas:; Saskatchewan Glacier Hut; Athabasca Glacier Hut; Lloyd MacKay / Mount Freshfield Hut; Mount Alberta Hut; Jasper Area:; Pocahontas / Disaster Point Hut; Wates-Gibson-Memorial Hut; Ralph Forster / Mount Robson Hut; Mount Colin Centennial Hut; Fryatt Creek / Sydney Vallance Hut; Lawrence Grassi / Mount Clemenceau Hut; Shangri-La and Watchtower Cabins; Fortress Lake Cabin; Mount Assiniboine Area:; Naiset Cabins; Robin C. Hind / Mount Assiniboine Hut; Surprise Creek Cabin; Police Meadows Cabin; Mitchell River Cabin; Bryant Creek and Egypt Lake Shelters; Other Huts in the Rockies:; CMC Valley / Archie Simpson Hut; Elk Lake Cabin; Fish Lake Cabin; Selkirk Mountains:; Rogers Pass Area:; Hermit Hut; Glacier Circle Hut; Arthur O. Wheeler Hut; Sapphine Col Hut; Balu Pass Hut; Eva Lake Shelter; Northern Selkirks:; Fairy Meadow Hut; Sir Sandford / Great Cairn Hut; Kokanee Glacier Area:; Slocan Chief Cabin; Silver Spray Cabin; Woodbury Glacier Cabin; Enterprise Hut; Valhalla Ranges:; Mulvey Basin Hut; Gwillim Creek Cabin; Evans Lake Cabin; Cove Creek Cabin; Cahill Lake and Beatrice Lake Cabins; Nemo Creek Cabin; Sharp Creek Cabins; Wee Sandy Cabins; Wragge Creek Cabin; Other Huts in the Selkirks:; Echo Basin and Ripple Ridge Cabins; Purcell Mountains:; Bugaboo Area:; Conrad Kain Hut; Vowell / Mallory Igloo; McMurdo Creek Cabin; Epilogue; Appendix; Index

ISBN: 0-920330-18-5

Accession Number: AC637

Call Number: 06.5 K11a

Collection: Archives Library

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Anthropology on the Great Plains

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1980

Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press

Call Number: 07.2 W86a

Responsibility: Edited by W. Raymond Wood and Margot Liberty

Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press

Published Date: 1980

Physical Description: vii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Indigenous; Indigenous Culture; Indigenous Customs; Indigenous People; Indigenous Traditions; Turtle Island; History

Abstract: Native American tribes living on the Great Plains have long attracted the attention of Euro-American scholars, inspiring over the years a vast quantity of research. The contributors to this volume discuss and evaluate all the major works of scholarship devoted to the culture of Plains Indians, from the arrival of these peoples on the North American grasslands thousands of years ago, through their subsequent Village and High Plains lifeways, to their present-day adaption to reservation and urban life. Toghether, the twenty-two authors undertake a comprehensive survey of the state of anthropology on the Plains: what it has been, what it is now, and what it may offer theory and method in the future. -- From interior dustjacket

Contents: The Plains setting / B. Miles Gilbert -- The influence of Plains ethnography on the development of anthropological theory / E. Adamson Hoebel -- The Plains culture area concept / Richard Scaglion -- Prehistoric studies on the Plains / Alfred E. Johnson and W. Raymond Wood -- An overview of Great Plains physical anthropology / David V. Hughey -- Studies in Plains linguistics : a review / Robert C. Hollow and Douglas R. Parks -- Plains trade in prehistoric and protohistoric intertribal relations / W. Raymond Wood -- The ethnohistorical approach in Plains area studies / Mildred Mott Wedel and Raymond J. DeMallie -- Plains economic analysis : the Marxist complement / Alan M. Klein -- Morgan's problem : the influence of Plains ethnography on the ethnology of kinship / John H. Moore -- Social control on the Plains / Garrick Bailey -- The Sun Dance / Margot Liberty -- The Ghost Dance / Omer C. Stewart -- The Native American church / Omer C. Stewart -- Plains Indian art / Mary Jane Schneider -- Plains Indian music and dance / William K. Powers -- Psychological anthropology / Margot Liberty and Robert Morais --The formal education of Plains Indians / Janet Goldenstein Ahler -- Plains Indian women : an assessment / Katherine M. Weist -- Research in health and healing in the Plains / Luis S. Kemnitzer -- Peoples of the Plains / compiled by Douglas R. Parks, Margot Liberty, and Andrea Ferenci.

ISBN: 9780803247086

Accession Number: 2022.17

Call Number: 07.2 W86a

Collection: Archives Library

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Backcountry management in Banff, Jasper, Kootenay and Yoho National Parks, Canada

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1982

Author: Harvey, Douglas C

Call Number: 13.112 H26

Author: Harvey, Douglas C

Responsibility: prepared for Parks Canada, Western Regional Office

Published Date: 1982

Physical Description: xxv, 251p. : ill., maps

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Camping; Hiking; Man and nature

Notes: M.A. thesis, University of Calgary; Bibliography

Accession Number: 15000

Call Number: 13.112 H26

Collection: Archives Library

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Banff : park of all seasons

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1980

Author: Downs, Art (ed.)

Publisher: Surrey (B.C.) : Heritage House

Call Number: 13.113 B22d Pam c.3

Author: Downs, Art (ed.)

Responsibility: Art Downs

Publisher: Surrey (B.C.) : Heritage House

Published Date: 1980

Physical Description: 62p. : ill., ports

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Series: Frontier series, 10

Subjects: Accidents; Geddes, Malcolm Daniel; Frank Lloyd Wright Pavilion; Johnston's Canyon; Paley; Skoki; Elk; Tourism; Birds; History; Feuz Ernest

Contents: hot water from the mountain side; Banff today; Wapiti; Bighorn at Banff; Gray Jay - friendly symbol of the wilderness

Notes: "Fred A. Feuz Salmon Arm" with phone number written on front cover in black ink

ISBN: 0-919214-10-X

Accession Number: 2019.43

Call Number: 13.113 B22d Pam c.3

Collection: Archives Library

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Books : their history, art, power, glory, infamy and suffering according to their creators, friends and enemies

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1981

Author: Donaldson, Gerald

Publisher: New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold

Call Number: 00.8 D71b

Author: Donaldson, Gerald

Publisher: New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold

Published Date: 1981

Physical Description: 128 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24.5cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Books; History

Abstract: George Donaldson's lighthearted and ingenious tour of books and book people through the years. - Aurora

Contents: Bookmaking -- The anatomy of books -- Book lore -- Disastrous books -- The enemies of books -- The love of books -- Bibliotypes -- Ex libris.

Notes: Ben Gadd Personal Library

ISBN: 0442219016

Accession Number: 2021.20

Call Number: 00.8 D71b

Collection: Archives Library

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The Bugaboos : an alpine history

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1987

Author: Garden, J. F.

Publisher: Revelstoke : Footprint Publishing

Call Number: F1089 B8 G3 reference

Author: Garden, J. F.

Responsibility: J.F. Garden (author); Fred Becky (introduction)

Publisher: Revelstoke : Footprint Publishing

Published Date: 1987

Physical Description: 156 pages : illustrations (some color)

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Bugaboos; Mountaineering; History; Kain, Conrad; Wheeler, Arthur Oliver; Harmon, Byron; Rock climbing

Contents: Pt. 1. Conrad Kain -- 1. The Nunataks -- 2. A veritable Bugaboo -- 3. The outfitter -- Pt. II. The hard men -- 4. A Bugaboo no longer -- 5. The last Bugaboo -- 6. Fred Beckey arrives -- 7. High angle climbing -- 8. An exceptional summer, 1959 -- 9. Cooper's east faces -- 10. Patagonia -- 11. Beckey returns -- 12. Traverse -- Pt. III. New standards -- 13. Old and new faces -- 14. Pushing the limits -- 15. What's next? -- Winter ascent: south Howser Tower -- 17. Granite.

Notes: Includes photographs by Glen Boles, Ed Cooper, Scott Flavelle, J.F. Garden, Byron Harmon (Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies Archives & Library), Daryl Hatten, Roger W. Laurilla, James B. Maitre, Rob Rohn, John Simpson, Uldis Veideman, Jim Weston; Signed by author - addressed to Margaret and Hans Gmoser