Bad Land An American Romance

Name: Bad Land An American Romance
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ISBN: 9780679759065

ISBN-10: 0679759069

ISBN-13: 9780679759065

Edition: N/A

Authors: Jonathan Raban

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A New York Times Editors' Choice for Book of the Year Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award Winner of the PEN West Creative Nonfiction Award "No one has evoked with greater power the marriage of land and sky that gives this country both its beauty and its terror. " --Washington Post Book World In 1909 maps still identified eastern Montana as the Great American Desert. But in that year Congress, lobbied heavily by railroad companies, offered 320-acre tracts of land to anyone bold or foolish enough to stake a claim to them. Drawn by shamelessly inventive brochures, countless homesteaders--many of them immigrants--went west to make their fortunes. Most failed. In Bad Land,…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/7/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.01" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English




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