Erika Bolstad

I found this book fascinating. It is not a novel, as the previous reviewer states. It is non-fiction. Shortly before her mother died the author found out that she had inherited some mineral rights from her great-grandmother's homestead in North Dakota.
She did extensive research not only into the Homestead Act and the history of land settlement that occurred because of that, but also a deep history of the boom and bust cycles that have occurred across the American West.
The earlier agricultural booms and the more recent oil booms are covered.

I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in the history of the European settlement of the American West and how it continues to evolve.
It is written from her personal perspective - an extremely interesting and fascinating book.… (mer)