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| Title: | Incredible Gang Ranch
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| Author: | Dale Alsager |
| ISBN: | 0888392117 : 9780888392114 |
| Illustrations: | colour & b/w photos |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 140x216mm |
| Pages: | 448 |
| Weight: | .405 Kg. |
| Published: | Hancock House - January 1990 |
| List Price: | 11.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | HISTORY |
Hardship, intrigue, humour, and tragedy went into author Dale Alsager's successful struggle to lasso The Incredible Gang Ranch, North America's largest cattle ranching empire and once the largest in the world at four million acres. Family squabbles, jealousies, and desperate financial hardship have gone into the continuing legal battle to keep it. The legendary million-acre ranch in central British Columbia is still worth more than 10 million dollars today, even after having been broken up. Its colourful and dramatic 130-year history includes meddling government bureaucracies, absentee owners, and tough economic times. This book makes a galloping good read, from the notorious founders, the Harper gang of West Virginia in the 1800s, through the days of the California and Cariboo Gold Rushes, to the high-flying, high-risk, computer-aged corporate ranching of the 20th century, apparent sabotage, and dramatic court battles.
