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　　A New York Times Editors' Choice for Book of the

Year

Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award

Winner of the PEN West Creative Nonfiction Award

"No one has evoked with greater power the marriage of land and

sky that gives this country both its beauty and its terror. "

--Washington Post Book World

In 1909 maps still identified eastern Montana as the Great

American Desert. But in that year Congress, lobbied heavily by

railroad companies, offered 320-acre tracts of land to anyone bold

or foolish enough to stake a claim to them. Drawn by shamelessly

inventive brochures, countless homesteaders--many of them

immigrants--went west to make their fortunes. Most failed. In Bad

Land, Jonathan Raban travels through the unf***iving country that

was the scene of their dreams and undoing, and makes their story

come miraculously alive.

In towns named Terry, Calypso, and Ismay (which changed its name

to Joe, Montana, in an effort to attract football fans), and in the

landscape in between, Raban unearths a vanished episode of American

history, with its own ruins, its own heroes and heroines, its own

hopeful myths and bitter memories. Startlingly observed,

beautifully written, this book is a contemporary classic of the

American West.

"Exceptional. . . . A beautifully told historical meditation.

"

--Time

"Champi***hip prose. . . . In fifty years don't be

surprised if Bad Land is a landmark."

--Los Angeles Times

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　　Jonathan Raban ambles and picks

his way across the Montana prairie, called "The Great American

Desert" until Congress offered 320-acre tracts of barren land to

immigrants with stardust in their eyes. Raban's prose

makes love to the waves of land, red dirt roads, and skelet*** of

homesteads that couldn't survive the Dirty Thirties. As

poignant as any romance novel, there's heartbreak in the

failed dreams of the homesteaders, a pang of destiny in the

arbitrary way railroad towns were thrown into existence, and

inspiration in the heroism of people who've fashioned

lives for themselves by cobbling together homes from the ruined

houses of those who couldn't make it. Through it all,

Raban's voice examines and honors the vast open expanses

of land and pays homage to the histories of families who eked out

an existence