First published in 1965, her childhood recollections of living in North
Dakota are what Lois Phillips Hudson used to spin these unusual, moving
stories of simple, joyful days and of continuing battles with the
hostile elements on the Great Plains during the 1930s. Lois Hudson is
recognized as a major chronicler of America's agricultural heartland
during the grim years of the Great Depression.
Lois Phillips Hudson is recognized as a major chronicler of America's
agricultural heartland during the grim years of the Great Depression.
Reapers of the Dust, now reprinted for a new generation of readers,
vividly evokes that difficult time. From Hudson's childhood in North
Dakota spring these unusual, moving stories of simple, joyful days, of
continuing battles with hostile elements, and of a family's new life as
migrant workers on the West Coast.