Magnificent Failure: A Portrait of the Western Homestead Era

by Kenneth W. Karsmizki and John Martin Campbell

Stunning photographic testimony to the hard realities of western farming

In words that are as clean and precise as his haunting, starkly beautiful photographs, John Martin Campbell vividly recreates the life and times of the western homestead era, the period from about 1885 when the prairie lands lying west of the longitude of the western Dakotas became available to pioneering farmers. More than 70 black-and-white duotone photographs, with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806199652
• ISBN13: 9780806199658
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 10.5" x 8.4"