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During a time of two world wars and a sluggish world economy, many Northern Europeans left their homelands to build the American and Canadian West with dreams of abundance and new life. Spanning a period from the late 1800s to the mid-1900s. This book recounts the dreams and realities of a father and a son. Otto Christensen came to Alberta in the early 1900s as an indentured farm worker from Denmark with a dream of becoming a successful farmer and rancher in Alberta. His son, Oliver grew up on his father's farm during the Dirty Thirties and soon realised his dream of becoming a cowboy in the mid-1940s. As a rider at the Bar U Ranch -- at this time, the largest, most successful ranch in Canada -- Oliver soon realised a life as a cowboy could not be his for long. Based on oral history interviews, unpublished diaries, and treasure trove of family papers, this is a compelling memoir that paints a portrait of a dying way of life.

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Barbara Holliday worked as a historian on the Bar U Ranch National Historic Site development project for almost six years. Born in Manitoba, Barbara was first an exhibit designer and writer, and later an interpretive curator for Parks Canada in Winnipeg before moving to Alberta. She now lives in Kelowna, British Columbia with her husband and continues to do work for Parks Canada.

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