Magnificent failure
Subtitle: a portrait of the Western homestead era
By: John Martin Campbell ; with an introduction by Kenneth W. Karsmizki.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.); Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- Pictorial works; Pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography; Oral history; Farm life -- West (U.S.); Farm life -- West (U.S.) -- Pictorial works; Ranch life -- West (U.S.); Ranch life -- West (U.S.) -- Pictorial works; West (U.S.) -- History -- 1890-1945; West (U.S.) -- Pictorial works
Genres: Pictorial works.; Biography.
Description: "In words that are as clean and precise as his haunting, starkly beautiful photographs, the author recreates the life and times of the Western Homestead Era, that period beginning around 1885 when the prairie lands lying westward from the longitude of the western Dakotas became available to pioneering farmers.

Some 70 black-and-white duotone photographs, with detailed captions, record the bleak landscapes and the abandoned farms, outbuildings, farm implements, and hand tools that are mute testimonies to the failed hopes of several million families who settled on these arid and semi-arid lands."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-183).