Homesteading: A Montana Family Album
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Book Overview
"His memories flow as naturally as his writing. . . . The reader is transported back to the day when a six-year-old stepped from the train into a new life."--Smithsonian As a grown man, Percy Wollaston almost never spoke of the homestead where he grew up--until, in 1972, nearing the age of 70, he wrote this book about his childhood years. Lured by the government's promise of land and the promotional literature of the railroads,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0140279156
ISBN13:9780140279153
Release Date:May 1999
Publisher:Penguin Books
Length:160 Pages
Weight:0.33 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 5.0" x 7.8"
Customer Reviews
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Homesteading: A Montana Family Album
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
This is an extremely well written book that is both informative and engaging. I wanted this book to feel my grandfather felt when he homesteaded Eastern Montana in 1910. He was one of the survivors for 52 years. The book provided a wonderful vicarious experience.
Tough times, tough land, and tough people
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
In a simple, straightforward style Percy Wollaston relates a memoir of his youth and his family's attempt to wrest a livelihood by dryland farming on Montana's eastern plains in the 1920s & 1930s. Their experience was heartbreaking, but there was nothing pitiful about these resilient people. What a treasure Wollaston left his descendants and all of us who want to hear a first-person account of that era! It's easy to see why the British writer, Jonathan Raban, was so taken with Wollaston's story. Wonderful!
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