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Loading... Bad Land: An American Romance (1996)by Jonathan Raban
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Non-Fiction, this book on the history of the railroads and settlers in Montana earns its ratings. Partly history, partly a travelogue across desolate and partially abandoned territory, author Raban does a good job of writing and holding the reader's attention as his journey unfolds. (  ) mldavis2 | May 24, 2012 |  "Bad Land" is the first book of Q2, 17th of the year, rated 2 1/2 roses. So what's the book about - the author answered the question this way - Montana. Homesteads. Deserted Houses. The empty prairie. Dry farming. You know......I would add: early 1900's, failure, survival, weather, 160 acres, toughness, independence. It's NOT history, it's almost a collection of interwoven essays. It's unusual......but at times it was also boring - it didn't work for me. But it won an NBA (pub 1996), and received excellent reviews from all the right places. So I understand Montana a bit more than I did before reading this, but I ain't itchin' to go see it. (  ) maneekuhi | Apr 1, 2011 | My review can be found at the following link - http://my.timepage.org/?p=263 (  ) pamur | Aug 28, 2010 | Very interesting history of the settlement of the desolate prairies of Montana. A definite recommend for anybody interested in the history of the railroads, farming in the US, immigration, Montana, settlement of the plains and later the Pacific Northwest, etc. (  ) dele2451 | May 31, 2010 | Excellent! Will be easy to read this a second time. ( ) mapconsultant | Jan 6, 2010 |
(Entire Review)From Drought to Dissent in the Western Plains In the present-day West he explores so engagingly in his new book, ''Bad Land: An American Romance,'' Jonathan Raban meets many people hostile to the Federal Government. These dissenters are not only extremists like the members of the Militia of Montana who refuse even to look at him as he eats breakfast in the Landmark Cafe, ''evidently the regimental mess,'' in Noxon, Mont.
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