Beyond The Range : A History Of The Saskatchewan Stock Growers Association

Hardcover, 171 pages, 6x9.25 in, [15.5x23.5 cm], B&W photographs.

Random ink marking through the printed pages (all text readable), covers rubbed, slight spine lean. Bottom and top edges stained.

John Archer writes in the Foreword " ... Beyond The Range is the history of ranching in Saskatchewan as reflected through the lives and times of the ranchers who organized and supported the Saskatchewan Stock Growers Association. It is a stirring account, reaching back into the early days of ranching in the United States. Here equipment and techniques, learned in Mexico, were adapted and honed in Texas and in the empty lands that lay west and north. The search for more grass and more empty range led ranchers across the 49th into now what is Saskatchewan. Here the techniques were further conditioned by natural environment and the regulation of the government.
Boyd Anderson, the author of this history, is a rancher born into the ranchers way of life. ..."

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