{"product_id":"ranch-in-the-slocan-cole-harris-9781550178234","title":"Ranch in the Slocan: A Biography of a Kootenay Farm, 1896-2017","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1888, a prosperous industrial family in Calne, Wiltshire, sent one of its younger sons, a lad judged to have no head for business, to Guelph Agricultural College in Ontario to learn to be a farmer.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJoseph Colebrook Harris, the author's grandfather, didn't take to Ontario and after visiting a friend on Salt Spring Island, fell in love with BC. Eventually fetching up on the shores of the Slocan Lake, Joe bought 270 acres of hilly land in the Slocan Valley, less than thirty acres of which was really fit for farming, and began clearing the forest to build a ranch. Here is the story of Harris's life and the next 120 years of the ranch's, including the discovery of a silver-lead mine on the property, a period as a Japanese internment camp, brushes with American counterculture and the back-to-the-land movement, family conflicts, and an uncertain future.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn detail, \u003cem\u003eRanch in the Slocan\u003c\/em\u003e is a very particular story, but its elements have repeated themselves across Canada. Settlers lived within bounded space, of which the Harris ranch is an extreme example, and adapted to cultural and social changes. Drawing from letters, diaries, family stories and recollections, photographs, as well as official records, Harris offers a case study in the history of homesteading, and a portrait of his family's experiences in the Slocan Valley. The Harris ranch produced a little income now and then but was not, and never has been, a commercial success. Its yield was not so much measured by the market as by the more intangible pleasures of living within a diverse local economy in a remarkable place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cole Harris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1550178237\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781550178234\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harbour Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/08\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.03lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.22h x 7.79w x 0.69d","brand":"Cole Harris","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44058352058623,"sku":"9781550178234","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bd729191-5b86-4b52-82dc-e6f179b29abf.jpg?v=1685052077","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ranch-in-the-slocan-cole-harris-9781550178234","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}