Chapter 6 (“‘All Is So Still—So Big, I Scarce Can Speak’”) examines the intellectual struggle to place the northern grasslands, prairies, and plains environments into the early twentieth-century modernist and realist literature and argues that novels and poetry constituted a form of settler colonialism on the plane of region. While their parents claimed specific property, this generation claimed an amorphous region by emotional attachments and physical experience. These individuals strove with limited success (in the works explored) to represent their environmental and social experiences in national literature, though their strivings often took them beyond the region. They struggled to create metaphors and language to match their experiences and secure publishers and audiences. Authors wrote about landscape, property relations, small towns, World War I, cultural conformity, consumerism, sexuality, and conflicted feelings toward pioneer parents. This grasslands-grown generation used literature and a budding sense of regional aesthetics to argue for their own place and regional indigeneity.