Title: These barren hills
Description: Someone is buying up vast acres of land in the valley. But with the country in the midst of a deep recession and a killing drought, it makes no sense. And then a well digger for one of the area farms makes a terrible discovery: They're not buying land. They're buying what's under it. These Barren Hills is the story of the rise and fall of a town; the brutality of corporate greed, and the deadly consequences for those who get in the way. -- cover.
Subjects: Conspiracy, Fiction, Droughts
Places: Red Cloud (Ariz.)