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All Sails Set - poem by Myra (Smith) Stilborn

Part of the "Canadian Reading Development Series" published by Copp Clark Publishers. These readers were used throughout Canada. The poem "Wild Horses" by Myra A. I. (Smith) Stilborn is on page 97.

Stilborn, Myra A. I. (Smith)

Jerry's Journey - Memoirs of Gerald Michael Willerth

141-page softcover book. Contains stories by Jerry Willerth of his childhood and youth on the farm east of Indian Head. Also stories of his many years of farming and involvement in soil conservation organizations - the Saskatchewan Soil Conservation Association, the Soil Conservation Council of Canada and the Indian Head Agricultural Research Foundation. Also stories of his work in the Bell Barn Society and memories by many friends and colleagues about Jerry and his accomplishments.

Black Baseball Players in Canada - A Biographical Dictionary 1881-1960

A 203-page softcover book with an alphabetically organized series of biographies of about 500 baseball players who played for various teams throughout Canada from 1881 to 1960. It includes many players of the barn-storming teams that played on the prairies during the 1950s, including the Indian Head Rockets. Writeups include: Nathaniel "Nat" Bates, who pitched for the Rockets in 1952 and visited Saskatchewan in 2022 for the induction of the Indian Head Rockets (1950-1954) into the Saskatchewan Baseball Hall of Fame in Battleford and for the opening off the Indian Head Rockets display at the Indian Head Museum; Elijah "Pumpsie" Green who also played for the Rockets and was the first black player on the Boston Red Sox. Many other Indian Head Rockets players are also included.

Swanton, Barry

The Reason Why

236-page coil-bound fictionalized account of ___ Horsman, mother of her husband Wayne.

Farmers "Making Good"

259-page history of the Abernethy, Saskatchewan, area - the area in which W.R. Motherwell farmed, whose farmstead still stands as a National Historic Site.

Dick, Lyle

Local History

Books that include significant sections about Indian Head and district

Other Books

This series consists of books that do not fit the other series but are of local interest for other reasons.

Written by Local Authors

Includes well-known literature (Sinclair Ross, Maureen Hunter) as well as smaller circulation and personal publications.

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