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Toronto: Douglas Gibson [0-7710-6108-0] 2005, 1st printing. (Hardcover) 477pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Photographs, illustrations, notes, index. There is a previous owner's name on the front free endpaper. "After the publication of Who Has Seen the Wind in 1947, W.O. Mitchell was a national star, living his life in the limelight, and loving it. Over the next half-century, as the index for this book shows, he knew almost everyone... His work, set mostly in his native Saskatchewan or in his chosen home province of Alberta, was an inspiration to generations of Western writers, who took courage from his example". Biography of W. O. Mitchell. Time Period 1948-1998. Locale: Alberta--Canada; Prairie Provinces; Saskatchewan--Canada; Western Canada. (Biography, Biography, Canadian Author).