Arc of the Medicine Line: Mapping the World's Longest Undefended Border Across the Western Plains

by Tony Rees

Today the borderland between Canada and the United States is a wide, empty sweep of wheat fields and pasture, measured by a grid of gravel roads that sees little traffic and few people who do not make their lives there. It has been much this way for more than a century now, but there was a moment when the great silence shrouding this place was broken, and that moment changed it forever. Arc of the Medicine Line is a compelling narrative of that moment--the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1553652789
• ISBN13: 9781553652786
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 393 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.