Taming a Wilderness: A History of Ashern and District by Ashern Historical Society - 1976

RM of Siglunes, Ashern, Manitoba: Ashern History Book Committee, 2008. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. viii, 480. 4to. Dark green cloth over boards, gilt lettering and illustration to the spine and front board, illustrated endpapers. Rich with many black-and-white maps, photographs, portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, et al. No detectable flaws to the cloth extremities, neat ink name to the upper-right margin of the ffep, else, contents entirely without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages and tight, sound binding; near fine.

Ashern: Ashern Historical Society 0-19213-16-2 [0-19213-16-2] 1976. (4to) 458pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Green leatherette with gilt illustration and lettering. Illustrated title page, photographs, map, folding map, family histories. A previous owner's name and date has been neatly covered with white paper pasted over. Identified on spine as Taming A Wilderness. Locale: Ashern--Manitoba; Camper--Manitoba; Manitoba; Moosehorn--Manitoba; Mulvihill--Manitoba; Prairie Provinces; The Narrows--Manitoba; Western Canada. (Manitoba, Family Histories--Manitoba, Local History--Manitoba).