| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.1

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Empire of Dust: Settling and Abandoning the Prairie Dry Belt. By David C. Jones. (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2002. xx + 316 pp. Illustrations, maps, charts, tables, appendix, notes, bibliographic essay, index. $29.95, paper.)

Although infrequently acknowledged, the empire of dust that choked Great Plains agriculture and regional development by the end of the 1930s was transnational in scope. Canada's prairie dry belt begins at the northern boundaries of Montana and North Dakota and extends northwesterly into the Dominion provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. David C. Jones's Empire of Dust, reissued by the University of Calgary Press, weaves an engrossing narrative of attempts to settle, farm, and build up Canada's prairie dry belt with the aid of aggressive boosterism, rapid expansion, and miscalculation. The end result here, as in the United States, was destitution, depopulation, and farm abandonment.

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