Title: Backlands
Description: Catapulted into early adulthood after the death of an older brother he idolized, eight-year-old Matthew Kerney assumes difficult responsibilities to save the family ranch against a backdrop of the Great Depression and a drought-stricken Tularosa Basin.
Subjects: Families, Fiction, Depressions, Ranch life, History, Family life, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, westerns, New mexico, fiction, FICTION / Historical
Places: New Mexico
Time periods: 1929, 20th century