THE WEST SERIES

Series Editor: George Colpitts

ISSN 1922-6519 (Print) ISSN 1925-587X (Online)

This series focuses on creative nonfiction that explores our sense of place in the West –
how we define ourselves as Westerners and what impact we have on the world around us. Essays, biographies, memoirs, and insights into Western Canadian life and experience
are highlighted.

No. 1   Looking Back: Canadian Women’s Prairie Memoirs and Intersections of Culture, History, and Identity
S. Leigh Matthews

No. 2   Catch the Gleam: Mount Royal, From College to University, 1910–2009
Donald N. Baker

No. 3  Always an Adventure: An Autobiography
Hugh A. Dempsey

No. 4   Promoters, Planters, and Pioneers: The Course and Context of Belgian
Settlement in Western Canada
Cornelius J. Jaenen

No. 5   Happyland: A History of the “Dirty Thirties” in Saskatchewan, 1914–1937
Curtis R. McManus

No. 6   My Name Is Lola
Lola Rozsa, as told to and written by Susie Sparks

No. 7   The Cowboy Legend: Owen Wister’s Virginian and the Canadian-American Frontier
John Jennings

No. 8   Sharon Pollock: First Woman of Canadian Theatre
Edited by Donna Coates

No. 9   Finding Directions West: Readings That Locate and Dislocate Western Canada’s Past
Edited by George Colpitts and Heather Devine

No. 10 Writing Alberta: Building on a Literary Identity
Edited by George Melnyk and Donna Coates

No. 11 Ranching Women in Southern Alberta
Rachel Herbert

No. 12 Rocking P Ranch and the Second Cattle Frontier in Western Canada
Clay Chattaway and Warren Elofson

No. 13 The American Western in Canadian Literature
Joel Deshaye