| Book Review | Environmental History, 12.3

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The Midwestern Pastoral: Place and Landscape in Literature of the American Heartland. By William Barillas. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006. xviii + 258 pp. Notes, bibliography and index. Cloth $39.95
My mother lived most of her adult life in northern Wisconsin. Despite the pain of its cold winters, she never wavered in her belief that it was God's country. I'm sure people of every region appreciate the charms and beauties of their countryside, but the people of the upper-Midwest, perhaps because of the harsh winters, seem especially fond of their landscape.	. . .

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