Backlands : : a Novel of the American West
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Call Number: Western
On Shelf At: Downtown Library
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Map on lining papers.
Catapulted into early adulthood after the death of an older brother he idolized, eight-year-old Matthew Kerney assumes difficult responsibilities to save the family ranch against a backdrop of the Great Depression and a drought-stricken Tularosa Basin.
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Sequel
submitted by kathscot on July 8, 2014, 10:48am
I thought the first book, Hard Country, better, but this is also well researched, with historical persons interspersed with the fictional characters.
Covers 1918 through 1943.
PUBLISHED
New York : Dutton, [2014]
Year Published: 2014
Description: 507 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780525953241
0525953248
SUBJECTS
Ranch life -- New Mexico -- Fiction.
Families -- New Mexico -- Fiction.
Depressions -- 1929 -- New Mexico -- Fiction.
Western stories.
Historical fiction.
New Mexico -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Western stories.
Historical fiction.