Homesteading: A Montana Family Album

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0140279156 ISBN13: 9780140279153 Release Date: May 1999 Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr Length: 160 Pages Weight: 0.25 lbs. Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 7.8" "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 Wollaston almost never spoke of the homestead where he grew up--until, in 1972, nearing the age of 70, he wrote this book about his childhood years. Lured by the government's promise of land and the promotional literature of the railroads, six-year-old Percy Wollaston's family left behind their home in North Dakota in 1909, heading West to "take up a claim." They settled near Ismay, Montana, where they attempted to carve a successful homestead out of the harsh plains. In compelling, plainspoken language, Wollaston tells of his pioneer family's everyday existence--constructing a sod