Bound like grass
Subtitle: a memoir from the western high plains
By: Ruth McLaughlin ; foreword by Dee Garceau-Hagan.
Contributors: Garceau-Hagen, Dee, 1955-
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Norman, Okla
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780806141374
Subjects: McLaughlin, Ruth, -- 1947-; Farm life -- Montana; Poor whites -- Montana -- Biography; Montana -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Description: ... "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.
Notes: Includes index.