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Arc of the Medicine Line : mapping the world's longest undefended border across the Western Plains / Tony Rees.
Summary:
"The border between Canada and the United States was laid out in many stages over more than a century, but the biggest part of the job was the long, (mostly) straight line across the great plains. On September 18, 1872, two large teams of army surveyors - one from each country - met at the Red River on the Manitoba-Minnesota border to fix, for the first time, the precise location of the 49th Parallel between the swampy shores of Lake of the Woods and the Continental Divide in the distant Rockies.Over the next two years they endured snowstorms, mosquitoes, flash floods, and the seething tensions from the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War, the Metis uprising, and the ongoing Indian Wars, all the while mapping and placing markers across nearly nine hundred miles of unforgiving territory. In drawing the "Medicine Line" they defined the final shape of a new nation and ended, once and for all, the old American dream of Manifest Destiny." -- Provided via publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781553654193
- Physical Description: xiv, 393 pages : illustrations, map, plates ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press ; c2007.
- Copyright: ©2007
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-384) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Prologue: September 18, 1872 -- 1. Autumn 1872 -- 2. The Northwest Angle -- 3. Winter Work 1873-73 -- 4. Spring 1873 -- 5. Summer 1873 -- 6. Autumn 1873 -- 7. Winter 1873-74 -- 8. Spring 1874 -- 9. Summer 1874 -- 10. Late Summer 1874 -- 11. Autumn 1874 -- 12. The End of the Line -- 13. The Medicine Line.
- Action Note:
- Committed to retain 20170101 20321231 COPPUL SPAN Monograph
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- Indigenous Peoples > North America > Great Plains > History.
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Astronomy > Northern boundary of the United States > History > 19th century.
Northern boundary of the United States > History > 19th century.
Milk River Region (Mont. and Alta.) > History.
Great Plains > History > 19th century.
High Plains (U.S.) > History > 19th century.
United States > Relations > Canada.
United States > Relations > Great Britain.
Canada > Relations > United States.
Great Britain > Relations > United States.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Bren Del Win Centennial Library | 971.202 Rees (Text) | 36320000262170 | Adult nonfiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Burns Lake Public Library | 910 Ree (Text) | 35198000291543 | Adult Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Fort St. John Public Library | 971.202 REE (Text) | BFSJ116173 | ADULT Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Kimberley Public Library | 971.2 REE (Text) | KPL98084 | Adult Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Kitimat Public Library | 971.202 Ree (Text) | 32665001214644 | Non-fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Portage la Prairie Regional Library | 971.202 REE (Text) | 3675000191706 | Adult Non-Fiction | Not holdable | Lost | 2025-01-02 |
| Salt Spring Island Public Library | 971.202 REE (Text) | 062376 | Non-fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Dauphin | 971.202 RE (Text) | 35419001782136 | Adult Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Lansdowne Library | F 854 R44 2007 (Text) | 26040003025380 | Main Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |
| The Pas Campus Library | FC186 .R43 2007 (Text) | 38500000320254 | Stacks | Volume hold | Available | - |