


Hal Borland migrated with his parents to the still unsettled, windswept high plains of eastern Colorado to take advantage of the Homestead Act. There they built a house from scratch, raised livestock, and worked hard living off the land. High, Wide and Lonesome is Borland's...





A memoir of a childhood homesteading in frontier Colorado: "A book from the heart . . . the stuff of the American dream" (The New York Times). In this memoir of a lost America, Hal Borland tells the story of his family's migration to eastern Colorado as homesteaders...

A memoir of a childhood homesteading in frontier Colorado: "A book from the heart . . . the stuff of the American dream" (The New York Times). In this memoir of a lost America, Hal Borland tells the story of his family's migration to eastern Colorado as homesteaders...