Reapers of the Dust: A Prairie Chronicle - 1st Edition

Sowing grain and seed, the farmers of the Depression found themselves reaping dust and bankruptcy. Among these dust-reapers were the parents of Lois Phillips Hudson, who was born in North Dakota and grew up in the long drought that by the '30's was turning the nation's bread basket into a sterile dust bowl. This is the childhood background from which spring these unusual, moving stories. Always concerned with human experience, they tell of simple, joyful things like a sunny afternoon in the orchard, or an ingenious Halloween prank, and of childhood chagrins-such as lamentable attempts at gopher trapping.

Condition: Hardcover, 173p. Small stain to foredge else Near Fine Near Fine dust jacket.

Author: Lois Phillips Hudson.

Published: 1965.