The West

ISSN 1922-6519 (print) ISSN 1925-587X (online)

This series focuses on creative non-fiction that explores our sense of place in the West. How do we define ourselves as Westerners and what impact do we have on the world around us? Essays, biographies, memoirs, and insights into Western Canadian life and experience are highlighted.

Series Editor: George Colpitts, professor, Department of History, University of Calgary

American Western in Canadian Literature

Joel Deshaye

Rocking P Ranch and the Second Cattle Frontier in Western Canada

Clay Chattaway and

Warren Elofson

Ranching Women in Southern Alberta

Rachel Herbert

Writing Alberta: Building on a Literary Identity

Edited by George Melnyk

and Donna Coates

Finding Directions West: Readings that Locate and Dislocate Western Canada’s Past

Edited by George Colpitts and

Heather Devine

Sharon Pollock: First Woman of Canadian Theatre

Edited by Donna Coates

Cowboy Legend

John Jennings

My Name is Lola

Lola Rozsa and

Susie Sparks

Happyland: A History of the “Dirty Thirties” in Saskatchewan, 1914-1937

Curtis McManus

Promoters, Planters, and Pioneers: The Course and Context of Belgian Settlement in Western Canada

Cornelius J. Jaenen

Always an Adventure: An Autobiography

Hugh A. Dempsey

Looking Back: Canadian Women’s Prairie Memoirs and Intersections of Culture, History, and Identity

S. Leigh Matthews