Happyland: The Dirty Thirties in Saskatchwan

In Happyland, Curtis McManus contends that the agricultural crisis commonly known as the "Dirty Thirties" actually began much earlier and was connected only peripherally to the Great Depression itself. McManus has mined the rarely consulted records of Rural Municipalities in Saskatchewan, as well as government documents, ministerial correspondence, local community histories, newspapers, and publications of relevant government departments, to tell this story that has not yet been told - a story of a quarter-century of stubborn persistence, but also of absurdity, despair, social dislocation, moral corrosion, and inconsistent and often inept government policy. Thanks to McManus's rare and welcome blend of sound scholarship and living, breathing prose, it is a gripping and evocative story as well.

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