Homesteading

by Percy Wollaston

Book Overview

"His memories flow as naturally as his writing. . . . The reader is transported back to the day when a six-year-old stepped from the train into a new life."--Smithsonian As a grown man, Percy... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558216022
• ISBN13: 9781558216020
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Homesteading: A Montana Family Album

This is an extremely well written book that is both informative and engaging. I wanted this book to feel my grandfather felt when he homesteaded Eastern Montana in 1910. He was one of the survivors for 52 years. The book provided a wonderful vicarious experience.

Tough times, tough land, and tough people

In a simple, straightforward style Percy Wollaston relates a memoir of his youth and his family's attempt to wrest a livelihood by dryland farming on Montana's eastern plains in the 1920s & 1930s. Their experience was heartbreaking, but there was nothing pitiful about these resilient people. What a treasure Wollaston left his descendants and all of us who want to hear a first-person account of that era! It's easy to see why the British writer, Jonathan Raban, was so taken with Wollaston's story. Wonderful!