Wallace Stegner : A Biography - Jackson J Benson

I admit I did not read this entire book.  I received it from a client who was looking for a possible relation to Stegner.  I'd read Stegner's works (Wolf Willow, Angle of Repose) and was intrigued to explore his life from a genealogical perspective.

The biography was written while the author was alive.  He was born February 18, 1909 near Lake Mills, IA during a visit; his parents were living in Grand Forks, ND.  He married 1 September 1934. 

Published: November 1996  Read: July 2019  Genre: Biography

Wolf Willow - Wallace Stegner

This was a wonderful read.  Someone I was working with had recommended the author and had been given the book by his mother.  I read it to see if there was any meaning implied in the gift.
Possibly, the message was to be as the pioneers coming to the desolate prairies of central Canada; stoic, keeping on, bouncing back from crushing hardships. 

Stegner's writing is lyrical, savored for it's imagery.  It's the story of his growing up in the small town of Eastend, Saskatchewan, Canada just as the last of the frontier was conquered and the natives vanquished.  It's a lesson in Canadian history.

Surnames in "Whitemud" aka, Huffman, Sickerton, Fetter, Orullian, Stenhouse, Young, Harold Jones, William Christenson, Nels Sieby
term - metis - mulatto in U.S. someone who is half-French, half native of Canada

Grain Growers Association - people who remained after bad winter.

Published: 1955  Read: May 2019  Genre: Memoir