Cover
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Looking Northwest from La Vérendrye Hill
Chapter 1. Parents’ Choice: Taking Root on the Northern Grasslands
Chapter 2. Small Worlds: Animal Friends, Foes, and Place Rhythms
Chapter 3. Sensing Prairies and Plains: Grasses, Grains, Waters, Woods, Rocks, and Snow
Chapter 4. “The Purple Hills That Beckoned”: Growing Up, Travel, Education, and Region
Chapter 5. “Old Woman Who Never Dies” and Old Man’s Garden: Settler and Indigenous Relations over the Generations
Chapter 6. “All Is So Still— So Big, I Scarce Can Speak”: New Literature and Settler-Society Aesthetics
Chapter 7. “Surely, Grass Is the Great Mother of All Plains Agriculture”: Agricultural Adaptation and Grasslands Conservation
Chapter 8. “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
Notes
Bibliography
Index