Title: Bound like grass
Subtitle: a memoir from the western high plains
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.
Subjects: Poor whites, Farm life, Biography, Farm life, united states, Montana, biography, Poor, united states, Poor white people
Places: Montana
People: Ruth McLaughlin (1947-)