By Julene Bair
A love affair unfolds as drawback hits a family members farm at the excessive plains
Julene Bair has inherited a part of a farming empire and fallen in love with a rancher from Kansas’s attractive Smoky Valley. She potential to create a kinfolk, supply her son with the daddy he longs for, and guard the Bair farm for the subsequent new release, honoring her personal father’s want and commandment, “Hang directly to your land!” yet a part of her legacy is a percentage of the ecological damage the Bair Farm has performed: each one growing to be season her family—like different irrigators—pumps over 200 million gallons out of the Ogallala aquifer. The speedily disappearing aquifer is the only resource of water at the monstrous western plains, and her family’s function in its depletion haunts her. As conventional methods of lifestyles collide with business realities, Bair needs to dramatically swap course.
Updating the territory mapped by means of Jane Smiley, Pam Houston, and Terry Tempest Williams, and with parts of Cheryl Strayed’s Wild, The Ogallala highway tells a story of the West at the present time and issues us towards a brand new method to love either the land and each other.
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