So Far and Yet so Close
Frontier Cattle Ranching in Western Prairie Canada and the Northern Territory of Australia
Description
A comparative study of frontier cattle ranching in two societies on opposite ends of the globe. It is also an environmental history that at the same time centres on both the natural and frontier environments.
Reviews
In addition to being an environmental history So Far and yet So Close is an engrossing social history.
- Ian MacLauchlan, Histoire social/Social History
Elofson goes beyond discussions of the environment to produce a social history of these regions, including his description of the rough and raucous “crew culture” that was created on the frontier by the gender imbalance of having two single young men to every woman. Compelling, too, are his accounts of the unique women who lived on the frontier — those who worked, hunted, fished, and ran ranches as part of pioneer households.
— Karine Duhamel, Canada’s History