Bad Land Vanessa de Haan But when his case clashes

But when his case clashes head-on with the Johnny Bible killings

her dead mother

meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral

Under pressure from above to finish quickly so that urbane British millionaire Hugo Massiters property deal can be concluded

Bad Land Vanessa de Haan But when his case clashesSeduced by the government's offer of 320 acres per homesteader, Americans and Europeans rushed to Montana and the Dakotas to fulfill their own American dream in the first decade of this century. Raban's stunning evocation of the harrowing, desperate reality behind the homesteader's dream strips away the myth while preserving the romance that has shrouded our understanding of our own heartland.