Wolf willow : a history, a story, and a memory of the last plains frontier
Wallace Stegner (Author)
"Pulitzer Prize-winning author Wallace Stegner's boyhood was spent on the beautiful and remote frontier of the Cypress Hills in southern Saskatchewan, where his family homesteaded fro 1914 to 1920. In a recollection of his years there, Stegner applies childhood remembrances and adult reflection to the history of the region to create this wise and enduring portrait of pioneer community existing in the verge of a modern world"--Google Books description
Biography
306 pages : map ; 22 cm
9780670777341, 067077734X
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I. The Question Mark in the Circle: The question mark in the circle ; History is a pontoon bridge ; The dump ground
II. Preparations for a Civilization: First look ; The divide ; Horse and gun ; Half world: the métis ; Company of adventurers ; Last of the exterminators ; The medicine line ; Law in a red coat ; Capital of an unremembered past
III. The Whitemud River Range: Specifications for a hero ; Genesis ; Carrion spring
IV: Town and Country: The town builders ; Whitemud, Saskatchewan ; The garden of the world ; The making of paths
Epilogue: False-front Athens
Map on end papers