Examines over a century of the development of the Canadian Western as it responds to the American Western, to evolving literary trends, and to regional, national, and international change. This is more than a simple history. It uses genre theory to comment on historical perspectives on nation and region.

An insider's account of the hardscrabble and often heartless prairie farm politics of the 1950s. The son of a CCF member, Herbert Schulz was an organizer for the Manitoba Federation of Agriculture and an executive in the Grandview Pool Elevator Association. This memoir weaves together humorous and poignant anecdotes with stories of bitter betrayal.