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PublisherUniversity of Regina Press

ISBN-100889778604

ISBN-139780889778603

eBay Product ID (ePID)5057262095

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Book TitleUnsettled : a Reckoning on the Great Plains

Number of Pages392 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2022

TopicWomen, Personal Memoirs

GenreBiography & Autobiography

AuthorDawn Morgan

FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight4 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5 in

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ReviewsMorgan's tale is shocking, sad, literary, and episodic, trading a settler's unease for solidarity., "Morgan's tale is shocking, sad, literary, and episodic, trading a settler's unease for solidarity." -- Dennis Gruending , author and former Saskatchewan MP " Unsettled i s a pioneer history like no other. It starts with a buffalo, a gunshot, and a dead father, then moves through time and prairie spaces--as if Marcel Proust gallops past Cormac McCarthy--before returning to a mother's Saskatchewan deathbed. A tremendous book, of the kind that arrives once in a generation." -- Erín Moure , author of The Elements, Unsettled i s a pioneer history like no other. It starts with a buffalo, a gunshot, and a dead father, then moves through time and prairie spaces--as if Marcel Proust gallops past Cormac McCarthy--before returning to a mother's Saskatchewan deathbed. A tremendous book, of the kind that arrives once in a generation., "Compelling...written in beautiful and Keroucian prose." -- Winnipeg Free Press "A powerful read, filled with tragedy and love." -- CBC Saskatchewan "Morgan's tale is shocking, sad, literary, and episodic, trading a settler's unease for solidarity." -- Dennis Gruending , author and former Saskatchewan MP " Unsettled is a pioneer history like no other. It starts with a buffalo, a gunshot, and a dead father, then moves through time and prairie spaces--as if Marcel Proust gallops past Cormac McCarthy--before returning to a mother's Saskatchewan deathbed. A tremendous book, of the kind that arrives once in a generation." -- Erín Moure , author of The Elements "Morgan's Unsettled is a wide-ranging, often erudite blending of the intensely personal, through alternate versions of history, western folktales and myth, the themes, ideas and anecdotes seamlessly woven to make a rich and striking whole that in a new way, illuminates the nature of the West and its people." -- Sharon Butala , author of Where I Live Now

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal791.84092

Table Of ContentContents (annotated) A Note on Vocabulary Map Corral Graveyard Buffaloed Days of Heaven Travelling Theatres of the Great Plains and the Isthmus Cowboys of the Americas Afterword Acknowledgements Playlist Sources and Selected References

SynopsisA memoir that reckons with the high costs--personal, social, and historical--of European settlement and Indigenous dispossession on the northern Great Plains., A memoir that reckons with the high costs of European settlement and Indigenous dispossession on the Great Plains. A surprise rodeo leaves a buffalo bull dead and a cowboy gored to death. Seeing the death of the one man who was kind to him, Dawn Morgan's father shoulders the blame and ends up dead. His sudden death, and the blundering way Morgan learns of it, forces her to reflect not only on the events in the bloodied corral, but also on the buffalo herds decimated and Indigenous Peoples displaced to make way for settlement in ranching and farming country in the prairies. Unsettled is a deeply moving work of literary non-fiction, a probing memoir examining family tragedy in relation to stories--both fact and fiction--of settlers and Indigenous Peoples on the Great Plains. Morgan shares the internal struggle between resistance and allegiance to the settler-descendent stories she grew up with while paying respects to her father and documenting the censorship she faces from her mother, loyal still to the pioneer myth of the early twentieth century. It is only when both parents are gone that Morgan is liberated to write a story of reckoning on the northern Great Plains., A probing memoir examining family tragedy on the Great Plains A surprise rodeo leaves a buffalo bull dead and a cowboy gored to death. Seeing the death of the one man who was kind to him, and knowing it was his fault, Dawn Morgan's father goes on a bender and ends up dead. His sudden death and the mystery around it, combined with the blundering way Morgan learns of it, forces her to reflect not only on the events of the bloodied corral, but also the buffalo herds decimated and Indigenous Peoples displaced to make way for settlement in what was becoming ranching country in the prairies. Unsettled is a deeply moving work of literary non-fiction, a probing memoir examining family tragedy in relation to stories--both fact and fiction--of settlers and Indigenous Peoples on the Great Plains. Morgan shares the internal struggle between resistance and allegiance to the settler-descendent stories she grew up with while paying respects to her father and documents the censorship she faces from her mother, loyal still to the pioneer myth of the early twentieth century. It is only when both parents are gone that Morgan is liberated to write a story of reckoning on the northern Great Plains.