Title:
Fifty dollar bride : Marie Rose Smith, a chronicle of Métis life in the 19th century
Author:
Publication Date:
1977
Publication Information:
Sidney, B.C. : Gray's Pub., 1977.
Physical Description:
160 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, genealogical table, portraits ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9780888260703
Abstract:
Biography of Marie Rose Smith (1861-1960) for the period 1870 to 1914.
Contents:
I. 1870: start of a long journey -- II. Prairie of the White horse -- III. The Carlton trail -- IV. 1877: the way of the Metis -- V. 1879: Frenchtown to Pincher Creek -- VI. 1882: life on the Jughandle -- VII. Kootenai Brown, Jean L'Heureux and Lionel Brook -- VIII. Prairie woman -- IX. 1914: The house on the hill: Pincher Creek.
Personal Subject:
Language:
English
