Buffalo Days and Nights

by Peter Erasmus

Book Overview

Born in 1833, Peter Erasmus was a colourful and important character in the events that marked western Canada's transformation from the open buffalo plains of Rupert's Land into townsites and farmsteads. He was a remarkable and highly educated man, fluent in six Native languages as well as English, Latin and Greek, and respected by Native peoples, white settlers and explorers. Trained by the church for missionary work, Erasmus instead became one of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1894004272
• ISBN13: 9781894004275
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Fifth House
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 5.8"