Homesteading: A Montana Family Album

by Percy Wollaston

Book Overview

"His memories flow as naturally as his writing. . . . The reader is transported back to the day when a six-year-old stepped from the train into a new life."--Smithsonian

As a grown man, Percy Wollaston almost never spoke of the homestead where he grew up--until, in 1972, nearing the age of 70, he wrote this book about his childhood years.

Lured by the government's promise of land and the promotional literature of the railroads,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140279156
• ISBN13: 9780140279153
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Homesteading: A Montana Family Album

This is an extremely well written book that is both informative and engaging. I wanted this book to feel my grandfather felt when he homesteaded Eastern Montana in 1910. He was one of the survivors for 52 years. The book provided a wonderful vicarious experience.

Tough times, tough land, and tough people

In a simple, straightforward style Percy Wollaston relates a memoir of his youth and his family's attempt to wrest a livelihood by dryland farming on Montana's eastern plains in the 1920s & 1930s. Their experience was heartbreaking, but there was nothing pitiful about these resilient people. What a treasure Wollaston left his descendants and all of us who want to hear a first-person account of that era! It's easy to see why the British writer, Jonathan Raban, was so taken with Wollaston's story. Wonderful!