Thanks to Pat Aldred, Bruce Anderson, Cody Anderson, Travis Anderson, Heather Christensen, Sherry Cuthbert, Connie Gault, Lynda Oliver, Jessica Swaine, Eleanor Taylor, Marlis Wesseler. To my agent, Dean Cooke, and my editor, Phyllis Bruce, for their astute comments and effort on the book’s behalf. To the Canada Council for the Arts and the Saskatchewan Arts Board. To the Grolier Society for excerpts from Lands and Peoples (published 1929); to Percy Bysshe Shelley for “Ozymandias”; to Bob Nolan for “Cool Water.”