Wild Roses

Beautifully illustrated and unaffectedly written, "Wild Roses" is an honest but loving remembrance of the homesteading era in northern Alberta in the thirties and forties, and the resolute people who endured it. Artist and author dutchie Rutledge-Mathison uses vivid colours and a primitive style in her paintings. Woven among the bold images are the author's powerful stories that touch the emotions and reveal the hardships, and the joys, of the homesteading life.