The Blue Horizons of the Northern Grasslands: Grasslands Grown: Creating Place on the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian Prairies. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. xviii + 474 pp. $75.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0803285767 ; $35.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-1496226716

Rozum Molly P. Grasslands Grown: Creating Place on the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian Prairies. Grasslands Grown, Molly Rozum’s new book about how they created a sense of place in the region, accomplishes several objectives: it recasts the millions of acres of short-grass prairie and plains as a transnational region; it offers a sense of what the land felt like to the children of the first generation of non-Indigenous settlers; and it provides a vision of settler colonialism seen through the sensibilities of young people enveloped by the region’s vast landscapes. The 1920s witnessed the beginning of a conservation movement that could argue, for instance, that attending to the needs of migrating birds tended also to conserve the lives of human beings and the fertility of the land that supported them.