ISBN: 9781895510072 - a preacher's frontier: the castor, alberta letters of rev. martin w. holdom, 1909-1912 (4 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Ex-lib with usual library stamps and labels. A little shelf wear. Otherwise a square, tight, unmarked book. Index. xviii, 148 pp.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. A little shelf wear. Ink notation on title page. Otherwise a square, tight, unmarked book. Index. xviii, 148 pp.

Zustand: V. Good. Calgary, AB, Canada: Historical Society of Alberta, 1996. 147 pages includes index and endnotes. From summer 1909 to 1912, Martin W. Holdom, a young Anglican priest in Castor, Alberta, dispatched 115 letters to his family in England. Through these letters he entertains as he informs. Soft cover is bright and clean, no creases, very minimal wear. No former owner`s name. Text is clean, tight, unmarked. Trade V. Good.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good ++. First American. SUBTITLED : ` The Castor, Alberta Letters of Rev. Martin W. Holdom 1909 -1912. '. Read more about : Church & Empire. Also : Stettler, Moral Reform League, well-diggers, natural gas, Keble barge, moving picture show, cowboy race, Beaver Dam Creek, bishop, tannery, Coronation, Main Street, and Miss Beatrice Blum. These 148 pages - includes INDEX - convey an excellent notion of what it means (to commercial trade) to be `end-of-rail' . (Hint : Castor is no longer `end-of-rail'.) Holdom adds some of his own b/w sketches to a small handful of b/w photographs. A MUST read for fans of small Alberta towns - like Copeville and Endiang. Condition : Paper wrapper is grey and navy blue. Cover photograph shows the preacher, his horse, and his dog. Volume is clean and bright. Four of the tiniest wear points. No names nor marks. Collectible ! ! QUote (p. 45) : " It was very strange to get back to civilization and see people walking about dressed in the latest fashions. Many of the houses are ten to fifteen stories. Price Jones is just putting up a huge store. To give you a little bit of the value of real estate in ._._._. . " Size: 8vo. B/W Drawings and Photographs (illustrator). …