The Resource The Ogallala road : a memoir of love and reckoning, Julene Bair
The Ogallala road : a memoir of love and reckoning, Julene Bair
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- Summary
- "Bair has inherited part of a farming empire and fallen in love with a rancher from Kansas's beautiful Smoky Valley ... But part of her legacy is a share of the ecological harm the Bair Farm has done: each growing season her family--like other irrigators--pumps over two hundred million gallons out of the Ogallala aquifer. The rapidly disappearing aquifer is the sole source of water on the vast western plains, and her family's role in its depletion haunts her. As traditional ways of life collide with industrial realities, Bair must dramatically change course"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 278 pages
- Isbn
- 9780670786046
- Label
- The Ogallala road : a memoir of love and reckoning
- Title
- The Ogallala road
- Title remainder
- a memoir of love and reckoning
- Statement of responsibility
- Julene Bair
- Subject
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- trueAgricultural conservation
- Agriculture -- Environmental aspects -- Kansas
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
- Bair, Julene -- Homes and haunts -- Kansas
- trueFamily farms
- Family farms -- Kansas
- trueFarm life
- Farm life -- Kansas
- trueFarmers
- trueIrrigation
- trueKansas -- Social life and customs
- NATURE / Natural Resources
- Ogallala Aquifer
- trueRanchers
- trueAgriculture -- Environmental aspects
- Agricultural conservation -- Kansas
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Bair has inherited part of a farming empire and fallen in love with a rancher from Kansas's beautiful Smoky Valley ... But part of her legacy is a share of the ecological harm the Bair Farm has done: each growing season her family--like other irrigators--pumps over two hundred million gallons out of the Ogallala aquifer. The rapidly disappearing aquifer is the sole source of water on the vast western plains, and her family's role in its depletion haunts her. As traditional ways of life collide with industrial realities, Bair must dramatically change course"--
- Award
- Booklist Editors' Choice, 2014.
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10282147
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Bair, Julene
- Dewey number
- 636/.0109781
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- S589.757.K2
- LC item number
- B35 2014
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Agriculture
- Family farms
- Farm life
- Kansas
- Bair, Julene
- Agricultural conservation
- Ogallala Aquifer
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
- NATURE / Natural Resources
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- a memoir of love and reckoning
- Label
- The Ogallala road : a memoir of love and reckoning, Julene Bair
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 2013036969
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 278 pages
- Isbn
- 9780670786046
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Lccn
- 2013036969
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Label
- The Ogallala road : a memoir of love and reckoning, Julene Bair
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 2013036969
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 278 pages
- Isbn
- 9780670786046
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Lccn
- 2013036969
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
Subject
- trueAgricultural conservation
- Agriculture -- Environmental aspects -- Kansas
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
- Bair, Julene -- Homes and haunts -- Kansas
- trueFamily farms
- Family farms -- Kansas
- trueFarm life
- Farm life -- Kansas
- trueFarmers
- trueIrrigation
- trueKansas -- Social life and customs
- NATURE / Natural Resources
- Ogallala Aquifer
- trueRanchers
- trueAgriculture -- Environmental aspects
- Agricultural conservation -- Kansas
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