The film flicks between archival footage from the Alberta cattle drive in the early 1900s and video from Alberta ranches in the 1970s.
With the film now available to the public, any Albertan who’s driven past cattle farms can also sense how the beef industry has evolved in the 50-plus years since the film aired.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails or any newsletter.
For the film’s short duration, one narrator recalls how just a dozen ranchers would often herd 3,000 cattle by horseback, ushering them along the Alberta foothills across unowned, sprawling Crown land to farms spread out across the prairies. Another tells a story about how many cowboys would ride by horseback from the Gulf of Mexico to the Red Deer River.
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