Rocking P Ranch and the Second Cattle Frontier in Western Canada
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Rocking P Ranch and the Second Cattle Frontier in Western Canada

  1. 264 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Rocking P Ranch and the Second Cattle Frontier in Western Canada

About this book

The Rocking P Ranch was one of the most ambitious family ranches in Southern Alberta. Founded in 1900 by Roderick Riddle Macleary, the Rocking P flourished during the Second Cattle Frontier as open-range the Texas System ranches failed. Beginning in 1923, Maxine and Dorothy Macleay edited, reported, and published The Rocking P Gazette, a monthly newspaper grounded in the daily life of the Rocking P. Ranch. With an audience of their parents and relatives, cowpunchers, teachers, and cooks, the 12- and 14-year-old sisters set out to create a family newspaper that reflected as closely as possible the commercial publications of the time. With sections for local news, advertisements, riddles, poetry, and contributions from Macleay ranch hands, The Rocking P Gazette brings the family ranch to life. Clay Chattaway and Warren Elofson draw upon this remarkable resource to explore the Second Cattle Frontier and to tell the story of the Rocking P Ranch. Through the lens of The Rocking P Gazette, Chattaway and Elofson detail not only a system of agricultural production, but a way of life that continues to this day.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Introduction: The Macleay Family and the Rocking P Gazette
  4. I. The Second Cattle Frontier in Western Canada
  5. 1 Go West Young Men
  6. 2 The Extended Family Period: Riddle and Macleay Brothers
  7. 3 Nature’s Fury and The Tattered Dream
  8. 4 The Rocking P Ranch (and Farm)
  9. 5 Enlisting the Nuclear Family, 1909–1925
  10. 6 Finance Matters
  11. II. The Rocking P Gazette
  12. 7 Introducing the Rocking P Gazette
  13. 8 The Rural West
  14. 9 Country Entertainment
  15. 10 Principles of Need
  16. 11 From Religion to Race
  17. 12 Reinforcing Family Values
  18. Conclusions
  19. Notes
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index