| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.4

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Book Review

Eye on the Future: Business People in Calgary and the Bow Valley, 1870–1900. By Henry C. Klassen. (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2002. xxxviii + 458 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95, paper.)

Klassen is a superb miniaturist. He deftly sketches the origins, the strengths and the foibles of scores of entrepreneurs who established the foundations of business activity in the Bow Valley during the last decades of the nineteenth century. Each cameo portrait glows with authenticity because it is based on meticulous archival research. Information from Canadian archives is corroborated using a variety of sources from the United States. Through this careful use of all the available material, Klassen is able to bring the scope and nature of the Montana-based trading companies' operations within Canada into sharper focus. Elsewhere, we hear the voices of the protagonists as they make statements about improvements to their homesteads, or argue their cases in the courts. Contemporary newspapers give color and comment to the text but are used only in a supporting role.

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