Prairies and Plains: the levelling of difference in Stegner's Wolf Willow.

If there is any place where citizens of Canada and the United States should come close to being one people, that place would be the unbroken reaches of the plains states and prairie provinces. For these prairies and plains were settled at roughly the same historical moment by a similar class of people who share to this day a pioneering culture.

The question is whether this one region has been divided by a political myth--on the one hand, by a myth of the western frontier, based on a mystical faith in the deculturating effects of "wildness"; on the other hand, by a myth of ...

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