Terre

1974 — 224 pages. "A portrait of the settlement of the prairies seen through the eyes of the settlers themselves... it is their book." - from introduction. A collection of photographs and text which tells the story of the homesteaders who streamed to the Canadian west from 1880 to 1914. The homesteaders themselves describe their experiences in first-person accounts taken from letters, diaries, autobiographies and personal reminiscences. Book is clean and unmarked with moderate wear to biege boards. Dust jacket well worn with numerous tears. Decent copy. Book