Recalling the Buffalo

Back Cover: The George W. Arthur Plains Bison and Martin S. Garretson Collections are outstanding examples of the Canadian collections housed at the University of Alberta Libraries. They are representative of our special mandate to collect and preserve books, printed ephemera, maps, manuscripts, and photographs related to the history of Canada's three Prairie Provinces. The printed heritage of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, including that recorded in Peel's Bibliography of the Canadian Prairies to 1953 (2003), may be found on our Peel's Prairie Provinces Website (http: //peel.library.ualberta.ca), where thousands of these texts are freely available online. Front Flap: Ken Tingley, the City of Edmonton's first Historian Laureate, has been involved in historical research and writing for forty years. Ken's family moved from Moncton, New Brunswick, to Royalties, Alberta, in 1955, then to Edmonton in 1956. He has a deep interest in local history and the ephemera that so often expresses that history. His numerous publications include Alberta Remembers: Recalling Our Rural Roots, with Karen Brownlee; A is Alberta: A Centennial Alphabet, with R.F.M. McInnis; The Heart of the City, for Cloverdale Community League; The Path of Duty: The Wartime Letters of Alwyn Bramley-Moore, for the Historical Society of Alberta; and The Strathcona Dream, for the Old Strathcona Foundation. Ken experienced the power, speed, noise, and dust of buffalo personally on one occasion when a small herd in Elk Island National Park became alarmed and broke into a stampede, involving him briefly in the melee. His respect for the big animals remains undiminished years later. Back Flap: Dr. Merrill Distad, Associate University Librarian (Research and Special Collections Services) and University Archivist, University of Alberta, is the co-editor of Peel's Bibliography of the Canadian Prairies to 1953 (Toronto, 2003) and the author, most recently, of The University of Alberta Library: The First Hundred Years, 1908-2008 (Edmonton, 2009)