Book Review: \u3ci\u3e Peace, Progress and Prosperity : A Biography of Saskatchewan\u27s First Premier, T. Walter Scott\u3c/i\u3e. By Gordon L. Barnhart.

This biography establishes Walter Scott as one of the major political figures in the history of Saskatchewan. It also sheds new light on Scott\u27s personal life, especially his long battle with manic depression which cut short his political career at the relatively young age of forty-nine. Gordon Barnhart provides a revealing account of Walter Scott\u27s early (and somewhat troubled) life in Ontario, and his rise to prominence in the newspaper business and then in politics in Regina and the North-West Territories during the 1880s and 1890s. After 1900 he was the Member of Parliament for Assiniboia West, having defeated the district\u27s longtime member Nicholas Flood Davin