Grasslands Grown: Creating Place on the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian Prairies

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