High, Wide and Lonesome

A memoir of a childhood homesteading in frontier Colorado: “A book from the heart . . . the stuff of the American dream” ( The New York Times ). In this memoir of a lost America, Hal Borland tells the story of his family’s migration to eastern Colorado as homesteaders at the turn of the twentieth century. On an unsettled and unwelcoming prairie landscape, the Borlands build a house, plant crops, and eke out a meager existence. While life is difficult—and self-reliance is necessary with no neighb