Reapers of the Dust

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.

Author: Lois Phillips Hudson
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Published: 03/15/1984
Pages: 189
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.23h x 5.55w x 0.57d
ISBN: 9780873511773

About the Author
Lois Phillips Hudson was born in 1927 in Jamestown, North Dakota. Since 1969 she has taught at the University of Washington in Seattle. Her published works include numerous short stories and The Bones of Plenty, a novel, also available from the Minnesota Historical Society Press.

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