Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains FrontierViking Press, 1962 - 306 páginas Wallace Stegner weaves together fiction and nonfiction, history and impressions, childhood remembrance and adult reflections in this unusual portrait of his boyhood. Set in Cypress Hills in southern Saskatchewan, where Stegner's family homesteaded from 1914 to 1920, Wolf Willow brings to life both the pioneer community and the magnificent landscape that surrounds it. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. From the Trade Paperback edition. |
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... head men , spent some months in a Mounted Police jail . The rest learned what the Sioux had had the wit to accept early : the law applied to everybody . It kept the Mounties busy applying it . Time after time a handful of constables and ...
... head men , spent some months in a Mounted Police jail . The rest learned what the Sioux had had the wit to accept early : the law applied to everybody . It kept the Mounties busy applying it . Time after time a handful of constables and ...
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... head was full of vague heroisms related to Commodore Peary and the North Pole . Once the thought popped whole and astonishing into his head : I might , except for one or two decisions made in excite- ment and stuck to through tears and ...
... head was full of vague heroisms related to Commodore Peary and the North Pole . Once the thought popped whole and astonishing into his head : I might , except for one or two decisions made in excite- ment and stuck to through tears and ...
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... head went slowly up and down . " But how ? " she said . " Do you want to strike the Z - X for a job , or the Lazy - S , or somebody ? Do you want to open a store in White- mud for when the railroad comes through , or what ? ” " Haven't ...
... head went slowly up and down . " But how ? " she said . " Do you want to strike the Z - X for a job , or the Lazy - S , or somebody ? Do you want to open a store in White- mud for when the railroad comes through , or what ? ” " Haven't ...
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I | 1 |
PREPARATION FOR A CIVILIZATION | 37 |
THE WHITEMUD RIVER RANGE | 125 |
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