description: Seduced by the government's offer of 320 acres per homesteader, Americans and Europeans rushed to Montana and the Dakotas to fulfill their own American dream in the first decade of this century. Raban's stunning evocation of the harrowing, desperate reality behind the homesteader's dream strips away the myth--while preserving the romance--that has shrouded our understanding of our own heartland.
language: English
title: Bad Land
titlecomplete: Bad Land
genres: History, The United States Of America, Politics, American History, United States, American, Nonfiction, Travel, Westerns, Memoir
ratings_count: 1682
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: General Nonfiction, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Washington State Book Award
publisher: Random House Value Publishing