In Search of Ancient Alberta
Seeking the Spirit of the Land
By Barbara Huck & Doug Whiteway


There are few places on Earth where the past is more evident than here, where the plains meet the mountains. Featuring dozens of sites, more than 350 color photographs and superb paintings, this beautiful guide brings Alberta's geology, paleontology and archaeology to life.

"An impressive book a welcome addition to the travelers' repertoire."
-Great Plains Review

CHAPTERS:

Preliminaries

• Alberta by the Sea
• Dinosaur Nirvana
• A Chill Wind over Alberta
• Stories in the Stone
• Tool Technology

Trans-Canada Highway

• Lake Louise
• Vermilion Lakes
• Banff
  • Tunnel Mountain Hoodoo
  • Tunnel Mountain and Bow Falls
  • Banff Springs Golf Course and the Shuswap Village
  • Cave and Basin Hot Springs
• Lake Minnewanka
• Rats Nest Cave
• Sibbald Flats
• Cochrane
• Calgary
  
  • Tuscany Site
  • Nose Hill
  • Hawkwood Site
• Dinosaur Provincial Park

Bow Valley and Icefields Parkways

• Johnston Canyon and the Ink Pots
• Castle Mountain
• Castleguard Cave
• Columbia Icefiled and the Athabasca Glacier
• Mount Edith Clavell

Crowsnest Pass and Mil River Route

• Crownest lake
• Frank Slide
• Livingstone Quarry
• Devil's Coulee
• Writiing-On-Stone
  • A Recipe for Hoodoos
    

Trail of the Great Bear and Big Horn Highway

• Waterton Lakes
• Maskinonge
• Zephyr Creek and the Painted Canyon Pictographs
• James Pass
  
  • Early Albertans on the Eastern Slopes
    
• Grande Cache and the Smoky River Valley

Ice Age Corridor

• Head-Smashed-In
  • Jumping Buffalo
• Sundial Hill Medicine Wheel
  • Circles of Stone
• Okotokes Erratic
• Drumheller and the Red Deer River Valley
• Dry Island Buffalo Jump
• Boss Hill and Buffalo Lake

Yellowhead Highway

• Jasper
  • Athabasca River
  • Patricia Lake
• Maligne Canyon and Medicine Lake
• Cold Sulphur Spring
• Glacier Lake Jasper and the Sand Dunes
• Snake Indian River
• Roche Miette and Miette Hotsprings
• Edmonton
  • Glacial Lake Edmonton and the North Saskatchewan River
  • Prosser Site
  • Strathcona Site
• Elk Island

Buffalo Trail

• Cypress Hills
• Medicine Hat
  • Saamis Site
  • Ross Glen Site
• Megafauna of the South Saskatchewan River
• Cactus Flower Site

Viking Ribstones

• Lake Peace Route
• Lesser Slave Lake
• Peace River
• Saskatoon Mountain

Glossary

Softcover
Full color
288 pp.
7 x 10"
$26.95 CDN
ISBN: 1-896150-00-4