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Native air : a novel

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25656
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2022
Author
Howland, Jonathan
Publisher
Brattleboro, Vermont : Green Writers Press
Call Number
05.2 H84n
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Author
Howland, Jonathan
Publisher
Brattleboro, Vermont : Green Writers Press
Published Date
2022
Physical Description
372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Fiction
Mountaineering
Abstract
In a debut novel from Green Writers Press by Jonathan Howland, the austere beauty and high exposure of mountain adventure provide the context and the measure for what it means to be alive for climbing partners Joe Holland and Pete Hunter--until one of them isn’t. When the book opens, it’s the mid-80s. Joe Holland, the novel’s narrator, is a climber and a seeker, but mostly he’s Pete Hunter’s shadow. The two meet in college and spend the next ten years living at the base of any rock that appears scalable, most of them near Yosemite and California’s High Sierra. The joys and strains of their friendship comprise the novel’s first half. In the second, the bare bones--obsession, grief, love, and repair--come into stark relief when Pete’s grown son Will calls Joe back into climbing, into the past, and into breathless vitality -- Front dust jacket flap
ISBN
9781950584901
Accession Number
P2022.14
Call Number
05.2 H84n
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Banff Mountain Book Competition Grand Prize Winner, 2022
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A stunning backdrop : Alberta in the movies, 1917-1960

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25734
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2022
Author
Graham, Mary
Publisher
Calgary, AB : Bighorn Books, an imprint of University of Calgary Press
Call Number
06.3 G76a
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Author
Graham, Mary
Publisher
Calgary, AB : Bighorn Books, an imprint of University of Calgary Press
Published Date
2022
Physical Description
xi, 401 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 x 28 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Film making
Canadian Rockies
History of Alberta
History-Canada
Indigenous
Abstract
The unconventional, untold story of Alberta's film history, defined by the terrible beautify of its pristine landscape, surprisingly important to Hollywood, and recaptured in lost or ignored Indigenous perspectives and stories. Alberta's magnificent landscape has served as a popular location for filmmakers since the dawn of the movie industry. For film pioneers, Alberta embodied the myth of the Great Northwest, a primeval mountain wilderness and the last western frontier. In turn, Canadian entrepreneurs were eager for American studios to drape Alberta landscape across the backdrop of their movies, an advertisement without equal. A Stunning Backdrop is the untold story of six rollicking decades of filmmaking in Alberta. Mary Graham draws on twelve years of exhaustive research to reveal a film history like no other, illuminating the deep importance of the province to Hollywood. She explores the often friendly partnerships between American filmmakers and Indigenous communities, particularly the Stoney Nakoda, that provided economic opportunities and, in many cases, allowed them to retain religious and cultural practices banned by the Canadian government. Beautifully illustrated with archival photography and featuring century-old set stills alongside photographs of the locations as they appear today, by Jean Becq, Solomon Chiniquay, Jeff Wallace, George Webber, and Paul Zizka, A Stunning Backdrop is the fascinating, often surprising, always unconventional story of film in a province whose rugged, compelling, multifarious, terribly beautiful landscape continues to inspire filmmakers and audiences around the world.-- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Early Alberta movie landscapes today -- Into the (civilized) wilds -- Snow! snow! snow! -- A rabble rouser and a dreamer -- Father of the western -- In the shadow of Castle Mountain -- Royalty, great chiefs, ranches, and rodeos -- The joy girl and others of a gregarious nature -- Mountain men -- Building the railway, movie style -- War and propaganda -- Out of the coma -- Rodeo westerns of the atomic age -- Selling sex and nostalgia -- Making Rocky Mountain movie magic -- The power of revision -- List of movies made in Alberta, 1917-1960
Notes
Mary Graham received the Whyte Museum's Lillian Agnes Jones Fellowship, 2021-2022.
ISBN
9781773853932
Accession Number
P2023.20
Call Number
06.3 G76a
Collection
Archives Library
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Hamish MacInnes : the fox of Glencoe

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25653
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2021
Author
MacInnes, Hamish
Publisher
Scotland : Scottish Mountaineering Press
Call Number
01.2 M26h
  1 website  
Author
MacInnes, Hamish
Responsibility
Edited by Deziree Wilson
Publisher
Scotland : Scottish Mountaineering Press
Published Date
2021
Physical Description
367 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Mountaineering
Mountaineers
Scotland
Biographies
Abstract
From a youthful solo of the Matterhorn, through historic first ascents, hunting for treasure, inventing equipment and pioneering mountain rescue, Hamish MacInnes recalls a lifetime of epic adventures in this eclectic selection of tales. His restless curiosity and pragmatic approach to risk and loss are vivdly rendered with wry, elegant style, offering unique insight into the mind of one of the greatest mountaineers of our time. -- From back cover
ISBN
9781907233395
Accession Number
P2022.14
Call Number
01.2 M26h
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Mountain Literature (Non Fiction) The Jon Whyte Award 2022 Winner
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Giving the past a name - we can't change the past, but we change how it's remembered

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25134
Medium
Library - Periodical
Published Date
May 2020
Author
Swanson, Tera
Publisher
Crowfoot Media
Call Number
P
  1 website  
Author
Swanson, Tera
Publisher
Crowfoot Media
Published Date
May 2020
Physical Description
p.22 - 23
Medium
Library - Periodical
Subjects
First Nations
Stoney First Nation (formerly known as Stoney Indians)
Archives
Abstract
Pertains to the Recognizing Relations project at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies Archives & Library - collaborative naming project aiming to reunite Stoney Nakoda Peoples in the photographs in the archival holdings with their names which are often omitted or incorrect
Notes
In Canadian Rockies Annual, vol.05, May 2020
Call Number
P
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Website for Crowfoot Media - publishers of Canadian Rockies Annual
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At home in the backcountry - celebrating the legendary hospitality and rich heritage of Assiniboine Lodge

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25135
Medium
Library - Periodical
Published Date
May 2020
Author
Ward, Meghan J.
Publisher
Crowfoot Media
Call Number
P
  1 website  
Author
Ward, Meghan J.
Publisher
Crowfoot Media
Published Date
May 2020
Physical Description
p.62 - 69
Medium
Library - Periodical
Subjects
Assiniboine, Mount
History
Abstract
Pertains to the history of Mount Assiniboine Lodge, includes chronology of events, summary of Renner family and future plans for the lodge with photographs and ephemera from the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies Archives & Library
Notes
In Canadian Rockies Annual, vol.05, May 2020
Call Number
P
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Website for Crowfoot Media - publishers of Canadian Rockies Annual
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Lost obelisks of the Rockies - Jerry Auld walks through history and into the alpine to discover a piece of Alberta's heritage, finding evidence that hasn't seen sunlight since it was first placed

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25136
Medium
Library - Periodical
Published Date
May 2020
Author
Auld, Jerry
Publisher
Crowfoot Media
Call Number
P
  1 website  
Author
Auld, Jerry
Publisher
Crowfoot Media
Published Date
May 2020
Physical Description
p.76 - 81
Medium
Library - Periodical
Subjects
Wheeler, Arthur Oliver
Cautley, Richard William
Surveyors
Surveys
Surveys and Mapping
Alberta
British Columbia
Abstract
Pertains to small brass obelisks placed along the British Columbia and Alberta border as part of Alberta's demarcation from the North West Territories in 1905 with the survey beginning in 1913, executed by A.O. Wheeler and Richard Cautley
Notes
In Canadian Rockies Annual, vol.05, May 2020
Call Number
P
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Website for Crowfoot Media - publishers of Canadian Rockies Annual
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Dark sky science - exploring in the mountains means something different to everyone. For Matthew Parker, new discoveries begin when the sun sets and the celestial space above Jasper - the world's second largest dark sky preserve - comes to life

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25137
Medium
Library - Periodical
Published Date
May 2020
Author
Recompsat, Juliette
Publisher
Crowfoot Media
Call Number
P
  1 website  
Author
Recompsat, Juliette
Publisher
Crowfoot Media
Published Date
May 2020
Physical Description
p.20 - 21
Medium
Library - Periodical
Subjects
Jasper
Astronomy
Abstract
Pertains to astronomy in Jasper, Alberta - includes instructions on how to adopt astronomy as a hobby
Notes
In Canadian Rockies Annual, vol.05, May 2020
Call Number
P
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Website for Crowfoot Media - publishers of Canadian Rockies Annual
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High-altitude inhabitants - the mountain summits we strive for are, at first glance, barren. Yet high-altitude species of the Rockies call these steep slopes "home". We tapped into the knowledge of naturalist Ben Gadd to spotlight six alpine dwellers that thrive where it seems nothing could survive

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25138
Medium
Library - Periodical
Published Date
May 2020
Author
Recompsat, Juliette
Publisher
Crowfoot Media
Call Number
P
  1 website  
Author
Recompsat, Juliette
Publisher
Crowfoot Media
Published Date
May 2020
Physical Description
p.28 - 29
Medium
Library - Periodical
Subjects
Rocky Mountains
Altitude
Marmots
Wolverines
Wildlife
Flora
Lichens
Snow fleas
Abstract
Pertains to six high-altitude species in Alberta - hoary marmot, wolverine, dwarf alpine hawksbeard, thamnolia lichen, snow flea and boulderfield spider
Notes
In Canadian Rockies Annual, vol.05, May 2020
Call Number
P
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Website for Crowfoot Media - publishers of Canadian Rockies Annual
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Believe and begin - Mt. Everest has followed Sharon Wood wherever she goes since her historic ascent of the peak in 1986. Over three decades later, her memoir Rising not only chronicles that achievement, but also culminates a writing process as challenging as the climb itself

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25145
Medium
Library - Periodical
Published Date
May 2020
Author
Croston, Joanna
Publisher
Crowfoot Media
Call Number
P
  1 website  
Author
Croston, Joanna
Responsibility
Joanna Croston
Publisher
Crowfoot Media
Published Date
May 2020
Physical Description
p.50 - 55
Medium
Library - Periodical
Subjects
Women
Wood, Sharon
Everest, Mount
Authors
Biography
Abstract
Pertains to Sharon Woods career as climber and author with focus on her new book "Rising"
Notes
In Canadian Rockies Annual, vol.05, May 2020
Call Number
P
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Website for Crowfoot Media - publishers of Canadian Rockies Annual
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Finding the line - conventional wisdome warns that a warming climate has the potential to push treeline upslope, ultimately edging the alpine zone off the mountaintop. Recent studies, however, give a more hopeful picture. Is the alpine zone more resilient than once thought?

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25146
Medium
Library - Periodical
Published Date
May 2020
Author
Malotky, Birch
Publisher
Crowfoot Media
Call Number
P
  1 website  
Author
Malotky, Birch
Responsibility
Birch Malotky
Publisher
Crowfoot Media
Published Date
May 2020
Physical Description
p.56 - 61
Medium
Library - Periodical
Subjects
Trees
Abstract
Pertains to the repercussions of climate change on treelines in alpine zones.
Notes
In Canadian Rockies Annual, vol.05, May 2020
Call Number
P
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Website for Crowfoot Media - publishers of Canadian Rockies Annual
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