Former press secretary to U.S. Senator Tom Daschle, Steven R. Kinsella is a news-media consultant and public affairs strategist for conservation organizations. The great-grandson of Great Plains homesteaders, Kinsella was raised on the northern prairie and now lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he also works as a freelance writer.
900 Miles From Nowhere: Voices from the Homestead Frontier
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- ISBN-13: 9781681340692
- Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
- Publication date: 09/01/2017
- Pages: 216
- Sales rank: 433,036
- Product dimensions: 7.90(w) x 9.50(h) x 0.50(d)
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It was on the vast American prairie that people from around the world seized the opportunity for personal and economic freedom promised by free land. Traveling across oceans and continents, these hard-nosed, pragmatic people began arriving in the 1860s with shovels and plows, convinced they were part of something important. They were. Putting hand to plow and breaking the sod for their first crude homes, these hardy settlers left an indelible thumbprint on American history and on the country's character. Though many of their ventures ended in failure, their risks permanently enhanced the nation's diversity and its sense of independence and resourcefulness.
900 Miles from Nowhere is the heartfelt chronicle of the daily lives and personal struggles of Great Plains homesteaders, told in their own voices through many never-before-published letters, diaries, and photographs. Believing absolutely that they could control their own destiny, they bet everything they owned, even in the face of insurmountable obstacles. This is the remarkable and ever-inspiring story of life on the grasslands that stretch from Canada to Mexico.
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They trekked west, many dying on the way; settled on dreary flatlands, building crude houses of sod and tarpaper. During savage winters, they braved snowdrifts, dwindling food supplies, and lack of heat. There were no news shows or media reports to document the suffering or the hard-won victories of the Great Plains homesteaders; but they did write revealing letters to their families back east and they did keep private diaries. Steven Kinsella's collection of original documents, many of them previously unpublished, offering a vista into a past that already feels distant.