{"product_id":"the-beaver-the-buffalo-the-border-a-century-of-small-town-pioneering-9798350750140","title":"The Beaver, the Buffalo, the Border: A Century of Small Town Pioneering","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book is about the first hundred years in the life of Pembina, a fur trading post, then a small town near the center of North America, first inhabited in 1797.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring its first 50 years, the town served as a rendezvous point for buffalo hunt brigades, a highly organized effort to provide dried and processed buffalo meat for fur traders in the far north.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt mid-century the town's attention turned to official management of traffic across the international boundary between the United States and British North America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlong the way, \u003c\/b\u003e Pembina witnessed and played its own role in: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe arrival of the Selkirk settlers in the area that would become Winnipeg, giving them shelter and sustenance during the first decade of their struggle for survival;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe final 60 years of the conflict that was the North American fur trade, a battle between the Hudson's Bay Company, the North West Company, the X Y Company, the American Fur Company, and the independent hunter\/traders;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe beginning of the settlement that would become St. Paul, the southern terminus of the Pembina ox cart trail;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe fixing of and the surveying of the 49th parallel of north latitude, the boundary between the United States and British North America;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe formation of the Dominion of Canada and the Province of Manitoba, including the \"Riel Rebellion\" and the surrender of Hudson's Bay Company's sovereign rights granted under its Royal Charter of 1670;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe development of the Territories, then States, of Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrontier characters\u003c\/b\u003e populating this story include: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEnos Stutsman, a frontier lawyer who had been born without legs;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThomas Douglas, the Fifth Earl of Selkirk, founder of the settlement that would become Winnipeg;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFather Joseph Goiffon, the frozen priest of Pembina;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSir Alexander McKenzie and David Thompson, North West Company explorers of Canada;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMarie Louise Bottineau Baldwin, Pembina's suffragette;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMr. Belymire, a prisoner, his hands in shackles, who leaped from a Red River steamboat to save a three-year-old girl who had fallen overboard;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"Jolly Joe\" Rolette, larger-than-life fur trader and legislator;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ea broad assortment of bishops, rogues, fur traders, politicians, soldiers and financiers.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSande, Gerald M.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eGerald M. Sande was born in 1934 and grew up in Pembina, a small town in the extreme northeast corner of North Dakota, where his father was a U. S. Customs Inspector at the international boundary with Canada. A pleasant childhood filled with good friends and adult role models led to his love of learning in the service of others, and brought him to St. John's Prep School and St. John's University in central Minnesota. Graduate work in theology in Europe prepared him for ordination as a Catholic priest and eight years of service in the Diocese of Fargo in eastern North Dakota.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1968 Gerry and Lorraine were married, a relationship that has only grown stronger over the past half-century. Two daughters and two grandchildren are now making professional contributions to society--testimony, perhaps, to a successful family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlso in 1968, Gerry joined the growing staff of what would become Target Corporation and spent eleven years assisting its legal staff in data collection and systems management. He then moved to a small specialty printing company, where he served as general manager and part owner until his retirement in 1999.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSomewhere along the way, a birthday gift from his daughter was a copy of \u003ci\u003eHistory of the Red River Valley\u003c\/i\u003e, a book Gerry had heard about years earlier but had never seen. This awakened old childhood memories about the log cabins and stories about the small town of his youth, the oldest settlement, he remembered, in this part of the world. If one book was good, ten would be better and a small library would be best, the yield of many days spent searching the wonderful world of used book stores for anything that spoke of the fur trade and Pembina's role in that era. Information began to accumulate and needed a place to go, finally settling in a story called \u003ci\u003eThe Beaver, The Buffalo, The Border.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anepeminan Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51720934850834,"sku":"9798350750140","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_128bc560-188e-404b-a62d-5cd61619f804.jpg?v=1762941696","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-beaver-the-buffalo-the-border-a-century-of-small-town-pioneering-9798350750140","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}