So Far and Yet So Close: Frontier Cattle Ranching in Western Prairie Canada and the Northern Territory of Australia

by Warren M. Elofson

So Far and Yet So Close provides a comparative study of frontier cattle ranching in two societies on opposite ends of the globe. It is also an environmental history that at the same time centers on both the natural and frontier environments.

There are many points at which the western Canadian and northern Australian cattle frontiers evoke comparisons. Most obviously they came to life at about the same time: late 1870s-early 1880s. In both...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1552387941
• ISBN13: 9781552387948
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: University of Calgary Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"