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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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The Bad Lands

The Bad Lands

Hall, Oakley

Paperback

WesternsHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $22.00

ISBN10: 022641261X
ISBN13: 9780226412610
Publisher: Univ Of Chicago Pr
Published: Oct 10 2016
Pages: 376
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
A stunning revisionist Western, an action-packed story full of human drama and wild beauty It's 1883 in Johnson County, in the old Dakota Territory--a rugged, wide-open landscape of rolling, red earth, prairie, and cattle as far as the eye can see. But the land is closing, the Beef Bonanza is ending, and the free-range cattlemen are stuck watching a way of life disappear in a blaze of drought and gunfire.

An action-packed western from one of the masters of the genre, Oakley Hall's The Bad Lands blends roundups and rustlers, whorehouses and land grabs, shoot-outs and the threat of hangings in a tale of the war between the cowboys and the cattle barons. But more than this, it is an elegy to the wild beauty of the badlands before the ranchers moved in, chased off the free-rangers, the trappers, and the tribes, and fenced it all in. Oakley Hall's masterpiece offers readers a new way of looking at what life was like in the American West, its compromises and dangers, heroism and corruption, violence and beauty. You'll never forget it.

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