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"Homesteading" is a first-person recollection of a pioneer family's attempt to carve a prosperous new life out of the harsh, "inexorable" land around Ismay, Montana, in the early years of this century. Told in a clear, straightforward style, this unsentimental narrative chronicles the backbreaking labors and simple pleasures of pioneer folk scratching out a living in a pitiless and uncooperative terrain. From such workaday details of life as the construction of a house, trapping and hunting, and courtships and funerals, to the encroaching signs of the outside world--county extension agents, the sinking of the "Titanic," and the Great War-- "Homesteading" is a rich and unflinching view of days past in the American West. Never thinking of publication, Percy Wollaston wrote his memoir in the 1970s for his grandchildren and handed the pages to his son, saying, "nothing much, probably not worth the trouble of reading." On the contrary, as Jonathan Raban discovered; the manuscript was one of the chief sources of his bestselling, award-winning "Bad Land." Raban's eloquent Foreword puts Wollaston's narrative in historical and cultural perspective.

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Homesteading chronicles the Wollaston family's attempt to carve a successful homestead out of the harsh plains around Ismay, Montana, in the period from 1910 to the late 1920's. Beginning with their move west from the Dakotas, the book continues through World War I and the onset of Prohibition to the poignant first signs of the town's demise in the early Depression years. From the workaday details of life - the construction of a house, trapping and hunting, courtships and funerals, saloons and banks, local cowboys and ranchers - to the increasingly tangible signs of the outside world - county extension agents, new roads, the sinking of the Titanic, World War I - Homesteading is a rich and detailed look at the forces that influenced the growing towns of the American West. (6 1/4 X 9 1/4, 156 pages, b&w photos)
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Chronicles the Wollaston family's attempt to carve a successful homestead out of the harsh plains of Montana in the period from 1910 to the late 1920s.

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  • PublisherThe Lyons Press
  • Publication date1997
  • ISBN 10 1558216022
  • ISBN 13 9781558216020
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages160
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