Review of Canada's Wheat King: The Life and Times of Seager Wheeler . By Jim Shilliday
The writing is fluid and simple, and each chapter, in true literary style, ends with either a commentary or a cliffhanger. The photographs are clear and well chosen, with a good balance of field and family, if perhaps too many of the Isle of Wight, and not enough of the farm where his work took him...
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ftunivnebraskali:oai:digitalcommons.unl.edu:greatplainsresearch-1952 2023-11-12T04:20:59+01:00 Review of Canada's Wheat King: The Life and Times of Seager Wheeler . By Jim Shilliday Massie, Merle 2008-01-01T08:00:00Z application/pdf https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/greatplainsresearch/953 https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/greatplainsresearch/article/1952/viewcontent/Shilliday_GPR_2008_Canada_s.pdf unknown DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/greatplainsresearch/953 https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/greatplainsresearch/article/1952/viewcontent/Shilliday_GPR_2008_Canada_s.pdf Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences Other International and Area Studies text 2008 ftunivnebraskali 2023-10-30T10:48:43Z The writing is fluid and simple, and each chapter, in true literary style, ends with either a commentary or a cliffhanger. The photographs are clear and well chosen, with a good balance of field and family, if perhaps too many of the Isle of Wight, and not enough of the farm where his work took him to fame. There are a few historical stumbles: for example, Shilliday's sketch of the 1885 Riel Rebellion paints it as an Indian uprising, contrary to recent scholarship such as Bill Waiser and Blair Stonechild's Loyal Till Death (1997), which portrays a clear distinction between Metis and Indian roles. But overall, Canada's Wheat King offers an entertaining and informative biography of a man who did much to promote agriculture on the prairies and Great Plains. Text Metis University of Nebraska-Lincoln: DigitalCommons@UNL Indian Blair ENVELOPE(160.817,160.817,-72.533,-72.533) |
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The writing is fluid and simple, and each chapter, in true literary style, ends with either a commentary or a cliffhanger. The photographs are clear and well chosen, with a good balance of field and family, if perhaps too many of the Isle of Wight, and not enough of the farm where his work took him to fame. There are a few historical stumbles: for example, Shilliday's sketch of the 1885 Riel Rebellion paints it as an Indian uprising, contrary to recent scholarship such as Bill Waiser and Blair Stonechild's Loyal Till Death (1997), which portrays a clear distinction between Metis and Indian roles. But overall, Canada's Wheat King offers an entertaining and informative biography of a man who did much to promote agriculture on the prairies and Great Plains. |
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