Title: Bound like grass : a memoir from the western high plains /
Authors: McLaughlin, Ruth, 1947-; Garceau-Hagen, Dee, 1955-
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press,
Year: 2010
Subjects: McLaughlin, Ruth,; Farm life Montana.; Poor white people Montana Biography.; Montana Biography
Abstract: ... "Account of McLaughlin and her family's struggle to survive on their isolated wheat and cattle farm. She explores her roots as a descendant of Swedish American grandparents who settled in Montana with high ambitions. Her parents barely managed to eke out a living on their own neighboring farm with four children, two of them disabled. Mclaughlin reveals the cost of homesteading on such unforgiving land, including emotional impoverishment and a necessary thrift bordering on deprivation ... Yet in this bleak world poverty also inspired ingenuity, and a longing for a richer brighter life ..."--Jacket.