Volume 44, Number 2 · February 6, 1997
The Plains That Broke the Plow
By Page Stegner
Bad Land: An American Romance
by Jonathan Raban
Pantheon, 324 pp., $25.00
When that largely forgotten son of the middle border, Hamlin Garland, wrote Main-Traveled Roads in 1891, he offered up a terse image of the northern Great Plains that has often been echoed since: 'The farther I got from Chicago,' Garland said,
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