

The Inland Ground is Richard Rhodes's first book. It was published quietly in 1970 to critical acclaim (The New York Times Book Review named it one of the best books of the year) but few sales. In the two decades that followed, Rhodes published ten more books, including...

The Middle West was land before it was people, a broad inland ground. To the south, alluvial; to the north, glacial; to the east, forested; to the west, dry and barren of trees. A vastness, a wilderness. Once ocean floor, now the basin of a great river.
