Grasslands grown : creating place on the U.S. northern plains and Canadian prairies

9781496226716
9780887559525

xviii, 474 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Canadiana
Publisher, pagination and printing dates may vary
Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction: Looking northwest from La Vérendrye Hill
Parents' choice : taking root on the northern grasslands
Small worlds : animal friends, foes, and place rhythms
Sensing grasses, grains, waters, woods, rocks, and snow
"The purple hills beckoned" : growing up, travel, education, and region
"Old woman who never dies" and "old man's garden" : settler and indigenous relations over the generations
"All is so still-so big, I scarce can speak" : new literature and settler society aesthetics
"Surely grass is the great mother of all plains agriculture" : agricultural adaptation and grasslands conservation
"All that vast region of grass land" : the United States, Canada, and changing cultural geography
Conclusion: Looking across the line from the prairies and plains

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