Revenge Of The Land : A Century Of Greed, Tragedy, And Murder On A Saskatchewan Farm

Maggie Siggins writes in the Preface, "This is the history of one particular farm, 640 acres of black brown clay, located seven miles south of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. It was chosen because a ghastly murder occurred there, but a commitment was undertaken: no matter how uneventful or commonplace, the story of every person who owned even a part of the land from 1883 to the present would be faithfully chronicled. The subsequent research revealed that of the eight men - always men becuase the wives, like most women, are lost in written history - whose names appeared on the title, not one lived a mundane life, not one escaped a fate full of astonishing surprises. How could they, when from the moment the first sod was turned, revenge was heaped on each who dared to violate the land?"