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001 2013036969
003 DLC
005 20141101081101.0
008 131114s2014 ksu 000 0 eng
010 $a 2013036969
020 $a9780670786046 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
043 $an-us-ks
050 00 $aS589.757.K2$bB35 2014
082 00 $a636/.0109781$223
084 $aBIO026000$aBIO022000$aNAT038000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aBair, Julene,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe Ogallala road :$ba memoir of love and reckoning /$cJulene Bair.
264 1 $aNew York :$bViking,$c2014.
300 $a278 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"Julene Bair has inherited part of a farming empire and fallen in love with a rancher from Kansas's beautiful Smoky Valley. She means to create a family, provide her son with the father he longs for, and preserve the Bair farm for the next generation, honoring her own father's wish and commandment, 'Hang on to your land!' But part of her legacy is a share of the ecological harm the Bair Farm has done: each growing season her family--like other irrigators--pumps over two hundred million gallons out of the Ogallala aquifer. The rapidly disappearing aquifer is the sole source of water on the vast western plains, and her family's role in its depletion haunts her. As traditional ways of life collide with industrial realities, Bair must dramatically change course"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aAgriculture$xEnvironmental aspects$zKansas.
650 0 $aFamily farms$zKansas.
650 0 $aFarm life$zKansas.
651 0 $aKansas$xSocial life and customs.
600 10 $aBair, Julene$xHomes and haunts$zKansas.
650 0 $aAgricultural conservation$zKansas.
651 0 $aOgallala Aquifer.
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aNATURE / Natural Resources.$2bisacsh
856 42 $3Cover image$uftp://ppftpuser:welcome@ftp01.penguingroup.com/Booksellers and Media/Covers/2008_2009_New_Covers/9780670786046.jpg