Folklife and Superstition: The Luck, Lore and Worldviews of Prairie Homesteaders

Rollings-Magnusson, Sandra: - Sandra Rollings-Magnusson is an Associate Professor of Sociology at MacEwan University. She has studied western Canadian homesteaders for over thirty years. Since receiving a Master's Degree from the University of Regina and a PhD from the University of Alberta, she has written numerous academic journal articles on homesteading life and lectured on a number of homesteading topics. She has also written three books: Tales from the Homestead: A History of Prairie Pioneers, 1867-1914 (finalist, Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction); Heavy Burdens on Small Shoulders: The Labour of Pioneer Children on the Canadian Prairies; and The Homesteaders.