Product Description Author Barry Potyondi offers a detailed look at the relationship between people and the evolving prairie environment. This is a portrait of how westerners deliberately changed the grasslands of southwestern Saskatchewan and how it, in turn, helped to shape their lives. Amongst other questions Potyondi asks is: should the Grasslands have been farmed at all? Review "For the best accounts of the development of Canadian ranching, see Potyondi's In Palliser's Triangle (especially 43-74) and Breen's The Canadian Prairie West."Matthew J. C. Cella,Bad Land Pastoralism in Great Plains Fiction (University of Iowa, 2010), p. 225. Book Description This is a portrait of how westerners deliberately changed the grasslands of southwestern Saskatchewan and how it, in turn, helped to shape their lives. About the Author Barry Potyondi was born and raised in rural Saskatchewan. After graduate work in western Canadian history, he founded Great Plains Research Consultants, a Calgary firm specializing in historical research, planning and interpretation. Since 1977, he has written widely about our past, and helped heritage preservation groups throughout Western Canada and the North tell their special stories to a broader audience. He currently lives in Calgary.
