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Article: Cypress Hills: the land and its people.
- Article from:
- Manitoba History
- Article date:
- September 22, 1996
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Walter Hildebrandt and Brian Hubner. The Cypress Hills: The Land And Its People. Saskatoon: Purich Publishing, 1994. Pp. 136, maps, illustrations. ISBN 1-895830-02-8.
The Cypress Hills, which stretch across the south-western corner of Saskatchewan into neighbouring Alberta, was a much larger plateau 40 million years ago before glaciation began to erode it. Native people were early attracted to the fragment that remained (comprising roughly 1,000 square miles), and in time so were others: Metis provisions hunters, American whiskey traders, the Mounted Police and then ranchers. The history of the Cypress Hills, and of the people who have lived there over thousands ...