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ovthvest: B Columbia |
Stories. Edited by David Stouck and Myler
Wilkinson, Polestar 1998, 288 pp. $18.95
® Fresh Tracks: Writing the Western
Laudscape. Edited by Pamela Banting.
Polestar 1998, 352 pp, $21.95
TWO new anthorogies Conmplcment cag other
in cmphasizing distnenve characteristics ot the

masng Soltural entera to shape rhe
The mary voices of the provinees are
represented
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Among, the
26 writers included are Malcolm Lowry The
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Dwelling Place: Kthel Wilson, Enuly Carr.

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make vou hom: on the pra
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standing ef and with grass
When the Nature Conservancy
of Canada. at cur instigation,
tumed the Butala ranch into
the OM. Man On His Back
Py and Heritage Couserve,
we wound up dn an unexpest:
ed controversy with 1
botanists and ecologists about
names. Iss no time at all the
grass scientists were fined up
toe to toe and nose to nose
with us — the ubiquitous but
non-specific *tolk," revealed
now as 2 svnonvin for idios —
over terminology: the correct
use of the commonly-used
terms ‘shortgrass," ‘buffalo
grass,’ and ‘praizie wool.’
No, our grass, whi
called shortgrass, is not
shorigrass, they said. The most
entreme of then declared
there is no shortycass in

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