Review of Wet Prairie: People, Land, and Water in Agricultural Manitoba. By Shannon Stunden Bower. Foreword by Graeme Wynn.

Authors

Sterling Evans, University of OklahomaFollow

Date of this Version

Fall 2012

Citation

Great Plains Research, Volume 22, Number 2, Fall 2012, p. 210.

Comments

© Copyright 2012 by the Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Abstract

Wet Prairie is excellent environmental history that evaluates the human/nature relationship. Stunden Bower writes, "In grappling with the environment of their province, Manitobans confronted not only the environmental conditions, but also the political and social arrangements that bore on their lives." Though no easy task, she succeeds in showing these relationships in what is an important contribution to the geographical, environmental, political, and cultural history of the Prairie Provinces and to the Great Plains as a whole.