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pp. 231, color photographs throughout, a pictorial celebration of the Canadian prairies. Signed and dedicated by Courtney Milne on the half-title page. “When W.O. Mitchell died in February 1998, Canadians all across the country mourned the death of a much-loved writer. But it was in the West that his loss was felt most keenly. For he was one of them, a Westerner, a man who had grown up in Weyburn, gone to University in Winnipeg and then spent most of his life in High River and in Calgary. His writing – in ‘Who Has Seen The Wind, Jake and the Kid, The Vanishing Point, How I Spent My Summer Holidays,’ and many other books – brought their part of the world alive on the page, so that millions of readers seemed to breathe fresh Western air as they turned the pages of his works.[…] In the end, from over 18,000 photographs – over 18,000! – he and the group assembling this book chose the best 200, none of them published before. The result is a magical blend of text and pictures that is greater than the sum of its parts. This classic volume sets a new standard for illuminating a writer’s words and bringing alive ‘the poetry of earth and sky.’ Open the book. Read it. You will see.”