Wolf Willow

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by Wallace Stegner · 1962

A hybrid of history, fiction, and memoir about the Cypress Hills and southern Saskatchewan, where Stegner’s family homesteaded from 1914 to 1920. The book reconstructs the region’s frontier past while recalling Stegner’s boyhood and the hardships of prairie settlement.

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DarkHorse Podcast
Grief leads to a defense of rooted, responsible lives
By pairing a dog’s death with Wendell Berry’s agrarian thought, the episode asks how ritual, place, and responsibility resist a culture obsessed with progress.
Sep 2, 2026 · 1h 18m

1 episode featuring Wolf Willow

Grief leads to a defense of rooted, responsible lives