Hopes Last Home : Travels In Milk River Country

An account of journeys through the Milk River country of southern Alberta, Saskatchewan, and northern Montana, combining travel narrative with the natural and human history of the northern Great Plains. Rees examines the region's geology, grassland ecology, Indigenous history, the decline of the buffalo, the arrival of ranching and homesteading, and the changing international borderlands shared by Canada and the United States. The narrative follows the landscape through successive periods of environmental and cultural change, relating observations from the author's travels to the historical development of one of the last remaining shortgrass prairie regions.

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