the author, eventually to become curator of the Western Development Museum, provides first-hand details of homesteading in Saskatchewan in particular and the Canadian West in general in the first half of the twentieth century; this copy signed by author on half-title ("With kindest regards/from the author./George Shepherd/Saskatoon 1965"); illustrated cloth, 157 pages, illustrated; bumped spine ends, light edgewear; edgeworn dj w/chipping/short tears to corners/spine ends, scrape to spine, smudging to panels, small triangular piece (measuring 1" long x 1/4" at widest) torn from top edge of front panel, general wear;