George Colpitts

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George Colpitts
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Historian.

George Colpitts is a Professor of History at the University of Calgary, specializing in western Canadian environmental history. His books include Pemmican Empire: Food, Trade and the Last Bison Hunts in the North American Plains, 1780–1882 (2018) and Game in the Garden: A Human History of Wildlife to 1940 (2002).

His articles for the Manitoba Historical Society:

Sinclair Lewis, Mantrap, and Northern Canadian Modernism at Pelican Narrows, Saskatchewan, 1924
Prairie History, Number 3, Fall 2020

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