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Title Description Seduced by the government's offer of 320 acres per homesteader and by the promises from railroad companies, by liberal credit from bankers, and by scientific claims about dry-land farming, Americans and Europeans rushed to Montana and the Dakotas to fulfill their own American dream in the first decade of this century. Their dreams too often, however, turned to nightmares featuring drought, cold, grasshoppers, and isolation, and by the end of the "Dirty Thirties", many were gone. Raban imaginatively re-creates the austere terrain that once housed their hopes; he portrays the people whose dreams foundered there and the survivors who endured amidst the ruins of those who fled. "Raban has made as good a book as I have read about rural America in a very long time." (Verlyn Klinkenborg, New York Times) Customer Reviews Have you listened to this audiobook? Please submit your ratings and review it! |
