The Canadian prairie: a homesteader with a mortgage, a girl who worked in a Winnipeg restaurant and is judged for it, and a neighbor who wants the land. Bindloss spent his twenties working in West Africa and across these prairies before illness sent him home; he wrote fifty novels of the frontier, and the wheat, the frost and the freight rates in them are what a man who has done it remembers. Fifty-seven plates by painters including Winslow Homer and Harvey Dunn carry the light and labor of the wheat frontier alongside the text.
