Bad Land: An American Romance

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER * Startlingly observed, beautifully written, this book is a contemporary classic of the American West. * "As good a book as I have read about rural America in a very long time." -The New York Times Book Review

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 clai...