Title: Magnificent failure
First published: 2001
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.
Subjects: Pictorial works, Frontier and pioneer life, Pioneers, Biography, Oral history, History, Frontier and pioneer life, west (u.s.), Farm life, united states, Ranch life, West (u.s.), history, pictorial works, Architectural photography, Farm life
Places: West (U.S.), Farm life, Ranch life
Time periods: 1890-1945
LC classification: F596 .C238 2002