Monuments of Grass: An American Romance
Spanning nearly three centuries, Monuments of Grass is a five-volume literary saga tracing the structural evolution of North America from colonial frontier to contemporary political fracture.
Beginning in the mid-eighteenth century with a transported Scottish printer and unfolding through successive generations, the series follows the hand-off of legacy across the McLennan and Wheeler families — each era reshaped by war, expansion, ambition, faith, violence, and myth.
At the centre stands Buffalo Rock — a monumental carving on the northern plains. Conceived as tribute to the great herds that once thundered across the grasslands, it becomes a silent witness to colonisation, civil war, homesteading, industrialisation, political upheaval, and racial reckoning.
Through frontier survival, Civil War devastation, the destruction of the buffalo, the struggle for Canadian autonomy, and modern unrest, Monuments of Grass confronts enduring questions:
- What does it mean to inherit a nation?
- How do myths become history?
- Can legacy survive the consequences of ambition?
A definitive exploration of the North American soul, spanning three centuries and five volumes.
