Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction xi
4. Beginnings
5. Nínoxkyàio (Bear Chief): Origin of the Buffalo 3
6. Mary Schäffer: Old Indian Trails 9
7. Fred Stenson: The Trade 17
8. Pioneering Narratives
9. Monica Hopkins: Letters from a Lady Rancher 55
10. Georges Bugnet: The Forest 71
11. Illia Kiriak: Sons of the Soil 87
12. Prairie Gothic
13. Christine van der Mark: In Due Season 103
14. Kerry Wood: Willowdale 115
15. Henry Kreisel: The Broken Globe 127
16. George Ryga: Hungry Hills 139
17. W. P. Kinsella: The Winter Helen Dropped By 153
18. Mountinscapes
19. Andy Russell: Kleo 171
20. Howard O'Hagan: The Woman Who Got on at Jasper Station 189
21. Sheila Watson: And the Four Animals 197
22. Sid Marty: Men for the Mountains 201
23. Thomas Wharton: Icefields 209
24. Urban Landscapes
25. Rudy Wiebe: Did Jesus Ever Laugh? 219
26. Katherine Govier: Between Men 235
27. Cheryl Foggo: Pourin' Down Rain 253
28. Sam Selvon: Ralphie at the Races 265
29. Voices of Resistance
30. Joy Kogawa: Obasan 279
31. Robert Kroetsch: Alibi 289
32. Aritha van Herk: Bail Skippers and Bacchants 299
33. Myrna Kostash: Bloodlines 311
34. Hiromi Goto: Chorus of Mushrooms 321
35. Aboriginality
36. Hugh Dempsey: Deerfoot and Friends 339
37. W. O. Mitchell: Since Daisy Creek 365
38. Emma Lee Warrior: Compatriots 387
39. Thomas King: Green Grass, Running Water 399